Further thoughts for a rainy day and coffee: "The Counter-Jihad is grinding its gears..."

This is the third in a series of installments about this topic. In my previous (second) posting, the reader may find a link to the first.

Today's rainy thoughts focus on why the Counter-Jihad Mainstream's gears are grinding at all. Why isn't the Counter Jihad (or, as I'd rather call it -- if it existed -- the Anti-Islam Movement) instead engaging efficiently its cogs & wheels so that the machine of communication may work to do its job -- waking up fellow Westerners to the problem of Islam (the actual problem, not the problem whittled down to the manageable size we would like it to be)?

On the other hand, looked at from another angle, one could say that the gears (of the Counter-Jihad Mainstream) are rather efficient and productive, in that they daily grind out an insipidly decaffeinated swill that pulls its punches with regard to Islam and Muslims.

Six and one-half dozen of the other.  The daily decaf churned out by the Counter-Jihad Mainstream pulls its punches by routinely and incoherently implying there are Two Islams (e.g., the artificial division between a "political Islam" and regular harmless Islam, which we see occasionally peddled by two Counter-Jihad luminaries -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Robert Spencer). And it pulls its punches by anxiously avoiding the Camels in the Room -- Muslims. 

Of course, these two decaffeinating deficiencies of the Counter-Jihad Mainstream are connected at the hip, since the anxious need to avoid suspecting all Muslims through a rational prejudice against all of them finds some emotional release through splitting Islam into (at least) two pieces, with the bad piece denoted various ways -- "political Islam" or "radical Islam" or "Islamism" or better yet, "Islamist extremism". The bad Islam then becomes the problem, obviously signalling that the "other" Islam is not bad and, hence, not a problem.  This good Islam then functions as the worldview of all those nice, decent Muslims who are implied to exist (lest we succumb to our natural evil white Western bigotry & racism).

I analyzed this dynamic of the Counter-Jihad Mainstream at length in various essays on my old blog, The Hesperado, in terms of a "paradigm shift".