I've noticed many of my recent postings over the last couple of months involve noticing, picking apart, and critically analyzing the asymptotic twitches, tics, reflexes and spasms of Hugh Fitzgerald, frequent writer for that bastion of the Counter-Jihad Mainstream, Jihad Watch (see my posting from May 1 -- "Asymptotic analysis (again)" -- for an explanation of the term, and further links therein elucidating even more).
Not the least of which my immediately preceding two-part postings below this one. While I was drafting and then publishing those two postings, my attention was distracted by a possibly even more important insight into Hugh's asymptotic tendency, an article also on Jihad Watch whereby Hugh practically showcases one of the up-and-coming "Better Cop" Muslims -- a Muslim perhaps even oilier (and therefore even "Better") than the more famous Maajid Nawaz, Zuhdi Jasser, and Irshad Manji -- the so-called "Imam of Peace" who resides in Australia, Mohammed Tawhidi.
I've spoken before about the "Better Cop" phenomenon; as in a recent piece from April 9, where I alluded to
....the various levels and facets of the jihad, including of course taqiyya deception, and the phenomenon of what I have called the "Better Cop" Muslim (also see this Google page). The "Better Cop" Muslim's whole schtick is to seem to be criticizing his own Islam and to be "feeling our pain" about the whole problem far more daringly than most Muslims; and the primary purpose of this schtick is not to fool the broader Western Mainstream (already readily fooled by the standard-issue garden-variety "Islam is a religion of peace! We are against terrorism! We love Coca-Cola!" Muslims of the "Good Cop" persuasion) -- but rather, precisely, to fool the still minuscule, but growing (albeit at a snail's pace) Counter-Jihad.
Also significant is that this article on Mohammed Tawhidi by Hugh has racked up 114 comments, more than the previous one I examined in my above-mentioned two-part posting. Notable among the comments are several by our old friend "the Big W", characteristically depositing no-nonsense zingers here and there with pithy (if a bit hamfisted) bombast. Indeed, we've had occasion not too long ago (April 29, in fact) to note Hugh's discomfitting deficiency of skepticism for this so-called "Imam of Peace", and now Hugh seems to have outdone himself.
Let's see what Hugh has to say about Tawhidi first, before we dip into the comments. I will bold for emphasis, and insert my commentary in square brackets. Before we get started, here's the spoiler, the conclusion with which Hugh ends his article:
I think he’s said, and done enough, to earn our– what’s the usual phrase?– “cautiously optimistic” trust.
This conclusion reveals the whole point of his article to, as I said above, showcase this Muslim for the Counter-Jihad; but precisely to what end, Hugh, of course, never quite says, except what would be reasonable to assume: namely, that we should consider Tawhidi to be a sign of hope for Muslims to "reform" sufficiently over time such that it will help manage the problem their Islam has been causing up to the present and foreseeable future. Given everything we know (or should know, by now) about Islam, this would seem to be a wildly unrealistic and reckless optimism, no matter how "cautiously" it is framed. And Hugh of all people should know better -- which only highlights the peculiarity of the asymptotic phenomenon.
Okay, back to Hugh's introduction of his Great (albeit Cautiously Optimistic) Brown Hope. Again, I will bold for emphasis, and insert my commentary within square brackets:
Mohammad Tawhidi is well-known as the “imam for peace” who urges fellow Muslims to support Jews and Christians, rather than join or defend those Muslims who attack them. He not only defends Israel, but insists that “Palestine is Jewish land.” He warns Christians to wake up to the Muslim peril in the West. Some think he seems too good to be true. Is he? Tawhidi recently was interviewed by the Christian Broadcasting Network here “We are all brothers in humanity before brothers in faith,” Tawhidi told CBN News. “Tawhidi is a third-generation Iranian-born Muslim from Australia and author of The Tragedy of Islam...
[Tawhidi is a Shia Muslim, which could well offer an insight into how he's likely doing taqiyya with his whole Better Cop schtick -- i.e., everything he is "warning" about in terms of "radical Islam" pertains not to Islam per se, but to Sunni Islam, the inveterate enemy of the Shia Muslims. A textbook example of kitman (that style of taqiyya whereby the Muslim tells part of the truth, while concealing the falsehood connected to that half-truth). Here's one quote of Tawhidi Hugh provides uncritically which could well fit right into this kitman tactic:
“When we come to the West and try to warn the governments and intelligence agencies about what is happening, about the people we fled from, we have this new political correctness agenda that tells us that oh, we are the racists, we are the ones who are traitors and the extremists need to be understood and embraced.”
The “extremists” he is slyly referring to without saying so being, of course, the Sunnis who hate Shias like him; while gulls like Hugh take him to be talking generally about Muslims.]
“He uses his Twitter and Facebook accounts to warn the world about the growing dangers of radical Islam.”
[That dysphemism, “radical Islam”, apparently comes from the media outlet CBN, but it's no doubt ironically on the nose, insofar as we in the Counter-Jihad should know by now that this particular dysphemism is a sly way to protect mainstream Islam. Of course, Hugh said nothing about that in his piece.]
Tawhidi has viewed with alarm the refusal of Christian leaders to recognize the danger of Islamic “extremists”; he is no doubt thinking especially of Pope Francis, with his absurd remark about how “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Quran are opposed to every form of violence.”
[Here Hugh goes out on a perilous limb of mind-reading Tawhidi with reckless generosity, when in fact the precise opposite is what we should assume about Tawhidi -- that, in other words, he would not only not be "thinking of" Pope Francis, but would, in other deftly placed contexts slyly articulate in fact the same thing as what Hugh quotes Pope Francis as saying; for what else could we reasonably suppose Tawhidi stands for -- as a Muslim himself who affects to be for peace and justice and love -- than for, as Pope Francis put it so elegantly, an “authentic Islam [which = Shia Islam] [based upon] the proper reading of the Quran [being] opposed to every form of violence”...?]
So many people in the West are affected by quite-unnecessary feelings of guilt toward Islam, insisting that islamocritics like Tawhidi “are the racists,” though we keep being reminded that Islam is not a race.
[There, Hugh seems blithely unaware of that skillful Better Cop tactic Tawhidi is evidently deploying, of incurring the charge of "racism" from the politically correct Western mainstream, in order thereby to earn double-virtue-signalling bonafides, leading to Counter-Jihad cred, from the Counter-Jihad.]
Political correctness protects extremist Muslims, while condemning the moderates who criticize them.
[Holy Toledo; did Hugh actually just use the term moderate without sneer quotes and without adding that it's a preposterous meme intended to lull the West into accepting Islam into its societies? Let me check his unclear typography and see if I can disentangle what are his words, the media's words, and Tawhidi's words... Well, I just checked, and apparently those are Hugh's words, and there's not a sign of critical sarcasm anywhere in the vicinity (not to mention that the whole damned piece in which this meme is ensconced overwhelmingly indicates a sincere, not a sarcastic, usage of the meme). No doubt not one of the 100 plus Jihad Watch commenters will protest. We'll see in part 2...]
Back to me now, outside of square brackets.
I won't slog through the whole article, however. We only need to cite such a breathtakingly egregious display of gullibility from Hugh Fitzgerald of Jihad Watch as this one:
The first week in May,Tawhidi was in Canada taking part in ceremonies commemorating the Holocaust. He tweeted: @Imamofpeace “ I flew to Toronto to light the candles of #YomHashoah2019, with over 20 faith leaders, at the first multi-faith commemoration of the Holocaust. May the rest of the world stand in solidarity with the Jewish People. Thank you to the @CanadianFSWC on this historical achievement.” This sounds heartfelt, rather than another example of Muhammad’s insistence that “war is deceit.”
Has Hugh lost his freaking mind...??? And why aren't the Civilians of the Jihad Watch wing of the Counter-Jihad Readership holding his feet to the fire on this? I haven't yet dipped into the comments in earnest, but I won't hold my breath...
We learn in the very next passage Hugh quotes that this seemingly pro-Jewish stance is obviously not a reflection of Tawhidi's Islam:
“This is rather a remarkable transformation for a Muslim who reportedly just a few short years ago had very different view of Jews. “Five years ago, I used to curse them,” Tahwidi admitted. “Today I am standing in solidarity with them.”
Hugh, as much as the mainstream media he's getting all this from, seems blithely incurious about why Tawhidi had this profound change -- not to mention nobody will ask Tawhidi how he can "stand in solidarity" with Jews if his own Islam (including the Koran) tells him to hate them. When, for example, Tawhidi writes (on Twitter) that --
“For many years we have been lied to {that} ‘the Jews are the enemy, kill them’... ”
-- is he saying the Koran is lying? He would have to, since the Koran is filled with hatred for the Jews in dot-connecting tandem with injunctions to fight and kill those who promote the fitna, fasad, and shirk which, according to the Koran and mainstream mufassiroon [Muslim exegetes of the Koran], the beliefs of Jews and Christians constitute. Knowing this, as all of us by now in the Counter-Jihad should know, Hugh blithely ignores this problem and gives Tawhidi his blessing:
His abandonment of antisemitism seems deeply felt.
Alas, we're not quite done with Hugh's torturously inconsistent gullibility which continues to afflict us a little longer:
Some people wonder if he can possibly be on the level, given that his teacher in Iran, Grand Ayatollah Shirazi, has standard anti-Infidel views. Tawhidi says he certainly held such views in the past, but no longer does.
But nowhere in the text following after that bolded sentence does Hugh seem to care in the slightest why Tawhidi changed so radically, and how he could, given that he continues to defend Islam -- the very same damned Islam which enshrines "such views" which Tawhidi claims to have sloughed off..
Then there's this:
“Tawhidi applauded President Trump this week [in the beginning of May] when his administration announced plans to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terror organization. Such a designation would make the Muslim Brotherhood and its partners vulnerable to harsh economic and travel sanctions imposed by the US. “The Muslim Brotherhood is the most organized extremist terrorist organization on this planet,” Tawhidi told CBN News.
Of course Tawhidi is opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood -- the Muslim Brotherhood is Sunni, and Tawhidi is Shia. Does Hugh take time out of his glowing review of Tawhidi to point this out to the Counter-Jihad readers he is supposedly educating? Of course not.
I will get into the 100 + comments in Part 2.
Further Reading:
The “Great Brown Hope” springs eternal
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