The Readership of the Counter-Jihad, that is.
The Readership is how I distinguish the majority of those "in the Counter-Jihad" -- mostly relatively passive, ordinary Western folks who may have a Facebook account or Twitter page (and may be hooked up on LinkedUp), but most of whom don't even have a blog (unless it's one dedicated to their hobby of baseball cards or Dixieland jazz, etc.) and certainly don't write books about Islam, aren't featured in various websites of the Counter-Jihad Mainstream (if they don't run one themselves), don't jet-set around doing speaking engagements at various institutions and colleges around the nation (or world), and don't participate in debates or panels eventually put up at YouTube. All these latter activities being what distinguishes the Leadership of the Counter-Jihad from the Readership. Back in 2017 on my older blog The Hesperado, I went into this phenomenon (what could be called the rudiments of a "sociology of the Counter-Jihad") in more detail in my 2-part essay, The Leadership and the Readership.
Related to this, also on The Hesperado (back in 2015), I "took the temperature" of the Counter-Jihad, and discussed that here on The Daily Decaf back in April of this year, in my essay, "Notre Dame hit a nerve in the Counter-Jihad Mainstream".
So how's the temperature of the Readership doing these days? Glad you asked, Pepe. I got a glimpse of it in a recent exchange amongst Civilians of the Readership in the comments field of a recent Jihad Watch article, concerning a story of many tons of explosives uncovered in a secret bomb factor in the UK, tied to Hezbollah. The short answer for now is, not a whole lot has changed, although there seems to be more mention of the D word ("Deportation") -- along with, however, a context of incoherence among most of them.
One commenter, Savvy Kafir, posted one comment that in this regard is sound:
...the Islamization of the West CAN be stopped; but only by ridding the West of Muslims. We vastly outnumber them throughout the Western world, so clearly it CAN be done. We could (and must) deport every one of them. But it will require the political will of many millions of voters who have become aware of the threat posed by Islam, and properly horrified by it — and determined to prevent that nightmare from unfolding, no matter what it takes.
The only problem I have with this statement is to wonder what Savvy Kafir means by "the Islamization of the West". Does he mean some kind of "Sharia creep" that will just keep slowly expanding by osmosis, with some violence here and there, but not much more than we've seen from Muslims to date? I wouldn't have to wonder if he just put it more clearly, by saying something like, "...the eventual violent destruction of the West by Muslims in the distant future CAN be stopped; but only by ridding the West of Muslims." I should add that this idea of "Sharia creep" -- which seems to be the main worry in the Counter-Jihad -- I find to be incoherent, and have analyzed this before in at least two essays: The Logic of Stealth Jihad, and It's the Violence, Stupid.
Anyway, our old friend The Big W posted a hitting-the-nail-on-the-head comment (as usual). Quoting another commenter, "Rufolino", who wrote:
Savvy Kafir, I note, responded to Big W. I'll note the subtle deficiencies in his response in un-italicized square brackets:
thebigW — You’re exactly right. We in the counter-jihad community
need to form the nucleus of a movement that demands the sort of
dramatic changes & actions needed to rid the West of Islam. And the
sooner we begin pushing that agenda, the better.
[Yes, the Counter-Jihad (or better yet, the Anti-Islam Movement) needs to demand changes in the West's response to Islam. But before we do this, or in necessary tandem with this demand we make, we need to show the West why it needs to take the action of deportation of Muslims from the West. And that requires a complex, comprehensive education process of our fellow Westerners still pleasantly asleep to the danger of Islam. And that education process won't be able to proceed efficiently without some kind of an Anti-Islam Manual (or Anti-Islam app) that presents all the interlocking bullet points of our case, along with comprehensive yet summarized references to the “mountain of data and ocean of dots” that exists out there which substantiate our case. An Anti-Islam manual or app must strike the right balance: It must be comprehensive and attentive to the complex subtleties of all the different levels and dimensions of the problem, in order to outwit the sophistry of the Islamopologists and their Useful Idiots, the Westerners deformed by political correctness -- who, unfortunately, remain the majority in the West. However, at the same time, it must not get too bogged down in a morass of minutiae that will cause the reader's eyes to glaze over.]
... I’m not promoting murder or extermination (as one recently-banned commenter did) – just the common-sense strategy of expelling Muslims from the West before they succeed in turning free societies into Islamic ones. It was pure insanity to allow Muslims to immigrate to the West in the first place. That suicidal mistake MUST be corrected.
[There's that hint again of "Sharia creep" being the major problem rather than Muslims infiltrating and aggrandizing within the West for a long enough time such that at some point in the distant future (I roughly estimate 100 years from now) they will feel able to move on to Phase 2 of the Jihad: rampant, coordinated razzias throughout the West, reducing the West to a general breakdown in order and infrastructures. Savvy Kafir apparently doesn't think this is going to happen, only that Muslims will somehow succeed in "turning our society into an Islamic one" by... how, exactly will they do that, absent the protracted, eventually escalating scenario of violence I described above? Savvy Kafir and the others in the Counter-Jihad who seem to think like him (and they seem to be the majority) never quite delineate the concrete steps of that process; and often they will add with a note of irritation in their tone, when pressed, that the West is already under Sharia now! This of course is silly hyperbole and doesn't do our primary mission of educating the West to the actual nature of the problem any good.]
[Yes, the Counter-Jihad (or better yet, the Anti-Islam Movement) needs to demand changes in the West's response to Islam. But before we do this, or in necessary tandem with this demand we make, we need to show the West why it needs to take the action of deportation of Muslims from the West. And that requires a complex, comprehensive education process of our fellow Westerners still pleasantly asleep to the danger of Islam. And that education process won't be able to proceed efficiently without some kind of an Anti-Islam Manual (or Anti-Islam app) that presents all the interlocking bullet points of our case, along with comprehensive yet summarized references to the “mountain of data and ocean of dots” that exists out there which substantiate our case. An Anti-Islam manual or app must strike the right balance: It must be comprehensive and attentive to the complex subtleties of all the different levels and dimensions of the problem, in order to outwit the sophistry of the Islamopologists and their Useful Idiots, the Westerners deformed by political correctness -- who, unfortunately, remain the majority in the West. However, at the same time, it must not get too bogged down in a morass of minutiae that will cause the reader's eyes to glaze over.]
... I’m not promoting murder or extermination (as one recently-banned commenter did) – just the common-sense strategy of expelling Muslims from the West before they succeed in turning free societies into Islamic ones. It was pure insanity to allow Muslims to immigrate to the West in the first place. That suicidal mistake MUST be corrected.
[There's that hint again of "Sharia creep" being the major problem rather than Muslims infiltrating and aggrandizing within the West for a long enough time such that at some point in the distant future (I roughly estimate 100 years from now) they will feel able to move on to Phase 2 of the Jihad: rampant, coordinated razzias throughout the West, reducing the West to a general breakdown in order and infrastructures. Savvy Kafir apparently doesn't think this is going to happen, only that Muslims will somehow succeed in "turning our society into an Islamic one" by... how, exactly will they do that, absent the protracted, eventually escalating scenario of violence I described above? Savvy Kafir and the others in the Counter-Jihad who seem to think like him (and they seem to be the majority) never quite delineate the concrete steps of that process; and often they will add with a note of irritation in their tone, when pressed, that the West is already under Sharia now! This of course is silly hyperbole and doesn't do our primary mission of educating the West to the actual nature of the problem any good.]
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Big W said:
It prolly won’t ever exist if people don’t start pushin’ it. You’d think folks in the Counter-Jihad if there was EVER a place on earth would be the NUCLEUS to grow this idea, but I guess you’d think wrong, eh?