Tbe "Better Cop" Muslim and the Counter-Jihad

I've written scads about this angle of the problem of Islam over the years.  This "Better Cop" phenomenon pertains specifically to the "problem of the problem of the problem" -- where the primary problem is, of course, Islam; the secondary problem is the mainstream West's inability to grapple with that primary problem; and the tertiary problem involves various defects in the Counter-Jihad Mainstream -- including a tendency to believe that when a "Reformist" Muslim smiles and sounds nice, he or she must actually be the mythical unicorn, the Moderate Muslim.

The "Better Cop" Muslims I define as those Muslims who have developed a taqiyya subtler and more sophisticated than the garden-variety "Good Cop" Muslims who, in order to fool the less savvy mainstream West, need only smile and repeat bromides like "Islam is a religion of peace!" and "I love America, I love Coca-Cola!"  The Better Cops, by contrast, make a show of seeming to cut deeper into a self-criticism of Islam, even as they are deftly palming the crucial cards of defending Islam with their other sleight-of-hand. In this way -- depending on how clever they are -- they can even fool many in the Counter-Jihad (their specific target anyway).

Two of these "Better Cop" Muslims I've noticed for a while now are Asra Nomani and Qanta Ahmed.

In a recent article on his blog, Andrew Bostom did a fine job taking apart these two Better Cops and their attempts to sell a sanitized Islam somehow supposed to be different from mainstream Islam.  However, it seems that Bostom was not entirely immune from their wiles (or at least the wiles of the "better" one).

When Janet Mefferd asked Andrew Bostom the 6 million dollar question about the motives of Qanta Ahmed and Asra Nomani -- "why the taqiyya?" -- Bostom executes a misstep:

I think they [Ahmed; Nomani] don’t tell the truth out of embarrassment. 

That twinge of a benefit of the doubt is, in that moment of microcosm, the essence of the reason why the West is likely doomed on the macrocosmic level to be eventually destroyed by Muslims in the future.

Indicative of Bostom's perspective is his different takes on these two Better Cop Muslimas:

...Qanta Ahmed, who is I think the more egregious of the two...

...Asra Nomani—who typically is a little better on these subjects...

The problem (of the problem of the problem) here,  is that Bostom apparently doesn't see the paradox -- that when Asra Nomani is "better" she is only so to the extent that she fools Bostom into thinking she's "better"; where "better" in his mind means she is less "egregious" (i.e., she's being less of a Mohammedan snake) than Qanta Ahmed.  I.e., if we use Bostom as our laboratory specimen metric, we can say that Asra Nomani is a better Better Cop -- in that she is able to fool even an Andrew Bostom into thinking she's not really doing any taqiyya at all (except maybe out of "embarrassment") -- than her Islamic sister, Qanta Ahmed.