The D Word (it's not "Donuts")

It's as good as donuts, but not as simple. I refer to Deportation (of all Muslims from the West).  For years as I read and participated in the comments community of Jihad Watch, I noticed the vast majority of Jihad Watchers either avoid the D word altogether or, when cornered, either deny it (when some outsider accuses them of wanting to deport all Muslims) or attack it when some fellow Jihad Watcher (like me) presses them on the validity of the D meme.

One essay in particular on my former blog, The Hesperado, which I wrote three summers ago (in August of 2016), analyzed this phenomenon at length and in depth:  The D Word.  Fast-forward to June of this year, in the comments field of a Jihad Watch article on how CNN demonized Jihad Watch, we see the same pattern of denial-cum-attack of the D meme.

Reading through the comments, it's like seeing a lab rat experiment, where an outsider known to be a Leftist critic of Jihad Watch, some commenter named "lebel" (whom our good friend The Big W calls "Patti Labelle") is accusing Jihad Watch (mainly through Jihad Watch writer Hugh Fitzgerald) and by extension of ethical responsibility the Jihad Watcher Civilian community (what I have called "the Readership") of both advocating the Deportation of Muslims and of trying to weasel out of that.

What this lebel character provokes from the Readership is one D word for another: their Denial of supporting Deportation.  It's fascinating to watch the Readership of the Counter-Jihad squirm when faced with someone accusing them of desiring the Deportation of Muslims from the West.  Instead of saying, with unanimity -- "Yeah, we want all Muslims deported from the West. So what? Next question..." -- they torture themselves into knots and go after non sequiturs and red herrings.  A good place to start is this opening salvo from lebel, and then watch, as you scroll down, the Jihad Watchers stumble all over themselves insisting, anxiously, that they do not want to deport Muslims from the West. 

If my readers follow the crumb-trail of links I provide somewhere above, you will find an old Jihad Watch comments field from January of 2013, where I expressed my dismay and frustration at my fellow Counter-Jihadists in this regard:

Many in the Counter Jihad, on reading my final paragraph above, would protest and insist they are not soft on Muslims -- until I raise the question "What are we supposed to do about the problem?", and provide a substantive proposal: Round up all Muslims, quickly process them, and deport them. Then suddenly these no-nonsense Counter-Jihadists undergo an amazing transmogrification: They suddenly become PC MCs before our very eyes, and throw up any number of hurdles and anxious rhetorical questions and assumptions: "But we can't do that! It would be illegal! It goes against the Constitution! Besides, where would you deport them to?"