Roger Moore and Liv Ullmann trying not to look judgemental at the Injun whom Brando used as a virtual-signalling stunt at the 1973 Oscars.
It's a little late for an Oscars satire, and still early for April Fool's -- but what the hey!
The applause from the audience of A-to-D-list celebrities dies down along with the brief musical introduction as Morgan Freeman and Mila Kunis walk out to present the Oscar statuette to the Muslim of 2019 who has pulled off the deepest scam of taqiyya.
"Not a Bad Cop," Morgan intones at the mic, "not a Good Cop -- not even a Better Cop. Tonight's Oscar nomination is for the category of Best Cop."
Mila Kunis leans forward to add:
"In this category, the Academy is pleased to announce the following nominees: Zuhdi Jasser..."
The cameras zoom in on Zuhdi sitting in the audience with his unveiled wife and his close friend Frank Gaffney and his wife.
"Asra Nomani..." Morgan speaks into the mic, pronouncing the name impeccably.
Asra puts her hand to her mouth, unable to repress her excitement as her friends on either side, Iranian-American actress Shohreh Aghdashloo and ex-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali squeeze her hand and shoulder in encouragement.
"Tarek Fatah..." says Mila, taking her turn to continue listing every other nominee.
Tarek looks pleased as punch next to his unveiled wife and daughter, as his friend Ezra Levant gives him a thumb up.
"Mohammed Tawhidi," says Morgan, "-- otherwise known as the 'Imam of Peace'..."
Mohammed sits up straight in his tux, trying not to look overeager, as his well-wishers Dave Rubin and Cenk Uygur clap supportively nearby and -- damn! the camera just barely missed getting a shot of the face of the ever elusive Hugh Fitzgerald on his left!
"Aimen Dean," Mila speaks the last name on the list of nominees, and as the applause dies down -- since Morgan has graciously handed the announcement of the winner over to her -- she rips ceremoniously into the envelope.
"And the winner in the category of 'Best Cop Muslim of 2019' is... AIMEN DEAN!!!"
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My readers may be wondering: Who the hell is Aimen Dean...? I'd never heard of him until today, when I saw a Jihad Watch report -- a report not really on him, but relaying what he said about jihadists (with of course not a hint of suspicion from Robert Spencer in his editorializing remarks but rather conveying a distinct impression of appreciation for this Muslim helping out the Counter-Jihad). The headline ran:
On closer inspection, I realized this Aimen Dean fellow is a tad more remarkable than merely another Better Cop. For years, he's been touted as a kind of daring "double agent" who grew up jihadin' with Al Qaeda only to flamboyantly jump ship and join Scotland Yard's MI5 and MI6. As the BBC put it dramatically (punning on the famous John Le Carré novel) in a headline 5 years ago:
The spy who came in from al-Qaeda
The BBC got it 2/3 right. We (who have our heads screwed on straight) may reasonably suppose that Aimen Dean is not a "double agent" but rather, one better: a triple agent -- defined as such precisely and exquisitely as an agent pretending to be a double agent. For, Islam is the only religion which inculcates a complex and prevailing sense of espionage as part of its religious mission in life: unless a Muslim is on the front lines of the Jihad of the Sword, where no mask of deceit is any longer necessary, and as long as the Muslim is surrounded by enemies more powerful than Islam at the moment, he or she -- particularly when sojourning on hijrah in the Dar-al-Harb -- remains a spy. For the vast majority of Muslims in the West, their espionage is relatively simple: simply live your relatively normal lives (whether hijabbed or unhijabbed), shopping, going to school, going to work, playing softball, having sandwiches, pretending that your religion does not call you to hate the Others around you in terms of a hatred scripted by your holy texts with an eye to the eventual conquest of these miserable lands of these hated Others. Meanwhile, for those Muslims getting involved more deeply in taqiyya-dawa propaganda & activism, the sophistication of their espionage increases. For Aimen Dean, the sophistication seems to have attained an apogee.
Leave it to our old friend "The Big W" to notice the glaringly clever -- in the sense of hiding in plain sight -- paradox at the heart of the Jihad Watch headline:
thebigW says
Feb 13, 2020 at 3:20 pm
“UK: Former member of al-Qaeda says there is “no such thing as a rehabilitated jihadist”
LOL this Muslim by sayin’ this is contradicting his own statement!!! HAHAHAHAHA. I.-freakin’-e., this Aimen Dean feller is pretendin’ to be a rehabilitated jihadist himself and tryin’ to prove it by sounding REAL tough against jihadists. The joke is on anyone who believes he ain’t doin’ taqiyya.
Indeed, Big W! And I'd comfortably wager my entire bank account on the bet that many in the Counter-Jihad would be among those who would remain unacceptably ambivalent (at best) about this Mohammedan triple agent, if not (at worst) lavish spasms of praise on him for being the "rare Muslim" who is "doing the right thing".
Not that one needs to research Aimen Dean at all, since our rational prejudice against all Muslims suffices to damn him; but here are a couple of juicy nuggets I uncovered in less than 10 minutes of Googling:
If someone asks me what is the thing that really I learned from my experience, the most valuable thing, the most valuable thing is that at the core of it there is no war between Islam and the West. There is actually a civil war within Islam that is sucking the West into it.
I am still a devout Muslim but I have to be as critical of my own faith in order to diagnose what the problem is.
This was taken from a fawning interview with Aimen Dean at that Conservative bastion, the Henry Jackson Society. Incidentally, one of the interviewers has the suspicious name of Nikita Malik, "Director of the Centre on Radicalisation & Terrorism" at the Henry Jackson Society "with a focus on youth deradicalisation", who has averred "I specialise in countering extremism..." Allah spare us! Meanwhile, a Vogue puff piece on her unwittingly describes her form of Mohammedan espionage well:
Nikita Malik, director of the Centre on Radicalisation & Terrorism at The Henry Jackson Society in London, works to mould society’s conversation around terror in the UK.
I'll bet she "works to mould" the conversation! Carefully "moulding" it to sanitize maintream Islam and the vast majority of Muslims, of course, as does one of her partners-in-stealth-jihad, Maajid Nawaz. I could not find definitive proof Nikita is a Muslim; but more and more it seems, it doesn't really matter, as the ambit of Islam's cultic atmosphere tends to poison even ex-Muslims and non-Muslims who hail from Muslim cultures, being effectively dhimmis, helping to aid and abet their Muslim Masters.
My first thought on seeing that headline was to have the reasonable reaction of what I call "rational prejudice". Oh great, I thought, yet another Muslim pundit in the West pretending to be oh-so tough on the Radicalized Islamist Extremist Wahhabist Salafists (With Sprinkles On Top). I.e., yet another Better Cop Muslim to join the ranks of Maajid Nawaz, Zuhdi Jasser, Asra Nomani, Tarek Fatah, Mohammed Tawheed ("the Imam of Peace"), Shireen Qudosi, and probably many others I haven't heard of (yet). Indeed, in researching today's posting, I just reacquainted myself with one Better Cop I'd forgotten about for years, about whom I wrote over a decade ago: Naser Khader, a Muslim "reformer" in Denmark. A few more essays I've written more generally on this phenomenon over the years may be found here.