The Affleck Duck

In Part 2, I promised the reader I would comment on the words I quoted there from Dave Rubin and Katie Hopkins as they began to get into a discussion on the topic of the problem of Islam.

First off, let me get a micro-spasm of double-virtue-signalling of my own out of the way: I myself am not saying that, for example, "all Muslims are trying to kill us". I myself recognize the complex and diverse nuances of the problem of Muslims, whereby not only are there different types of jihad employed/deployed by various & sundry Muslims -- many of those types ostensibly non-violent (though all in one way or another enabling the violent Jihad of the Sword) -- but I could even concede that there exist innumerable (and that's key, that they are literally not numerable) Muslims who are not violent and will never be violent and will never consciously be, or want to be, enablers of the Jihad of the Sword. The problem is on the macro level, where the numbers are so staggering (tens of millions out of a global ocean of hundreds of millions) and motility so complex (millions of Muslims emigrating, traveling around from Western country to country after they immigrate, bubbling and percolating throughout our societies when not insinuating their infiltration deep into our sociopolitical structures) -- which, coupled with the problem of the frighteningly fanatical Islamic mandate to conquer the Earth plus the problem of taqiyya -- means it would be reckless if not suicidal for us to think we can adequately vet Muslims in order to discriminate the dangerous ones from the harmless ones.

Naturally, neither Dave nor Katie contextualized their double-virtue-signalling spasms to clarify this. Not to mention that, unlike how I articulated it above, they laid it on thick playing to the gallery. The effect, then, of their protestations is -- to the extent they have any sway over their audience(s) -- to relax our vigilance & alarm at Muslims, while providing an incoherent basis for patting ourselves on the back for being (unlike all those Leftists out there) oh-so-politically incorrect about an Islam artificially disconnected from Muslims.

Other than that, there's not much else left to say. Well, I could close with the Affleck comparison I made in Part 2.  The Affleck quote verbatim was difficult to transcribe because Affleck was so apoplectic and there was a lot of cross-talk, but I managed anyhow.  Here he is, the White Knight standing up for over a Billion Brown People against the Evil White Racism of Sam Harris:

How about the more than a billion people, who aren't fanatical, who don't punish women, who just want to go to the store, eat sandwiches, pray five times a day, and don't do any of the things that [you're saying] all Muslims [do]...!

And let us remind ourselves (if we wish to punish ourselves more) of what Dave and Katie said:

Dave:  Muslims who are people -- the vast majority who want the same exact things that you want and I want and everybody else. How big of an issue do you think this battle between the ideas Islam and the West is? Or did I even frame that properly?

Katie: No, I think it's fair the way you frame it and I think it would be a great thing if we were able to in our daily lives I'm talking about in the UK if we were able to separate those two things out nice and neatly so that it was about Islam and the ideology and a criticism of that versus regular Muslims living in the UK many of whom are working very hard many of them, have been here for generations and just want to crack on and do the same as the rest of us, which is look after our families, work hard and try and be ... healthy and happy as much as we can. 

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And I'm not just picking on Dave and Katie. The Counter-Jihad (which they're not really in anyway, other than in a one leg in, one leg out sort of way) is rife with double-virtue-signalling spasms, as I have documented and analyzed over the years here and on my former blog, The Hesperado. Case in point: Raymond Ibrahim, a solid member of the Counter-Jihad over the years (though of late he hasn't contributed much to Jihad Watch, he used to quite regularly) who, in his critical essay about the Ben Affleck episode, in the section therein titled "Conflating Muslim Teachings with Muslim People", himself demonstrates his retardation in terms of advancing along the learning curve -- i.e., his failure to make the paradigm shift from the Problem of Islam to the Problem of Muslims.  I.e., Raymond is anxiously reminding us not to conflate Muslim Teaching with Muslim People, when in fact that conflation is only logical.  Indeed, two years ago in a posting on The Hesperado I characterized one particular piece by Raymond in this way:

A more blatant display -- and attempted justification -- of the Counter-Jihad Mainstream's habit of "double virtue-signalling" would be hard to find.