Bosch

No, today's posting is not about Harry Bosch, nor about Hieronymous Bosch, but rather the only other Bosch I know of, Bosch Fawstin.  And speaking of the asymptotic reflex (as I was in my previous posting), Bosch Fawstin is another analyst in the Counter-Jihad Mainstream (winning first prize at the Garland, Texas Mohammed drawing contest back in 2015, infamously attacked by two Muslim terrorists who were, praise Allah, neutralized by one man, Garland police officer Greg Stevens, whose cool heroism is described at this article) who seems to have the asymptotic tendency.

When about a week ago I saw a Bosch Fawstin artlcle on Jihad Watch directly pertinent to this issue of asymptotic analysis, I braced myself for frustration and irritation.  And wouldnchya know it, after several paragraphs of unremarkably cogent observations, he just had to have that Tourette's tic at some point in his argument.

Bosch's argument, as I said, starts out good with -- for example -- a boldly robust salvo like this:

I’m sick and tired of hearing people, and not only lying leftists, refer to the Islamic enemy’s ideology by endless terms, ALL in the name of Not saying the actual name of the Islamic enemy’s ideology, Islam.

And develops this particular thought with salutary logic, such as this:

The only difference between “Islamism” and Islam is three letters, but it’s those three letters that some people use in order to obfuscate the fact that the actual ideology of the Islamic enemy is Islam, and not some alleged deviant form of it. Western intellectuals and commentators refer to the enemy’s ideology as: “Islamic Fundamentalism,” “Islamic Totalitarianism,” “Islamic Extremism,” “Islamofascism,” “Political Islam,” “Militant Islam,” “Bin Ladenism,” “Islamonazism,” “Radical Islam,” “Islamism”, etc.

But then, wouldn't you know it, he reveals the fault-line of the asymptotic inability to take this insight to its logical conclusion; and that fault line lies with that aspect of Islam which the Counter-Jihad Mainstream seems to studiously avoid: the problem of Muslims.  Thus Bosch:

And while the jihadists may not represent all Muslims, they do represent Islam.

With a wearied reminder, I note the old ground I've covered long ago on my retired blog The Hesperado, along with the bones of dead horses thereon littered:

Are all Muslims jihadists?

What's the difference between a "Muslim" and a "Jihadist"?

"Not all Muslims are jihadists..."

The problem is not Muslims, but only 'jihadis'...?

A shift from Islam to Muslims

And that last linked essay in turn pivots to my many essays of yore calling for a "paradigm shift" in the Counter-Jihad.