Ees not jure job...?

With regard to an adroitly cheeky attempt by Reza Aslan to play the race card up his sleeve by suggesting a remake of the 70s classic television show All In the Family (whose whole premise was a satire of a typical white American racist, "Archie Bunker") -- in which now instead of blacks and other racial minorities being the subject of ignorant prejudice, it will be the New Black and the New Jew, Muslims -- Spencer dispatched Aslan's nonsense in fine form.   Spencer never fails to deal well with the "Good Cops" like Aslan, but he exhibits poor if not failing grades with regard to the subtler, Better Cops.

Case in point, Zuhdi Jasser, one of the better "Better Cops" (better than Reza Aslan's "Good Cop" routine seen through so easily by Spencer) -- whose "heart is in the right place" -- so Spencer says, preposterously, in this recent video talk.

Spencer never would have even brought it up, had it not been for an audience member who is curious enough about her question to ask Spencer, and to press him by reiterating her point when he seems to skirt off point (though she is oh so polite in doing so).

At 1:05:36 of the videotape, referring to the infamous verse of Koran 9:111:

"I'm curious to know... 'those of us who kill and are killed in the name of Allah go straight to Paradise' -- how do so-called moderates like Zuhdi Jasser _______ -- I just don't, I can't understand that!"

(The blank is a word I can't make out, but it's clear what she must be saying; at any rate, Spencer helpfully clarifies her question for the audience:)

"How does Zuhdi Jasser read the Koran saying that Paradise is guaranteed to those who kill and are killed for Allah, and not think there's something wrong here -- is that a fair summation?"

And the woman in the audience agrees -- "Yeah, right!"

However, something odd goes on in the videotape. At 1:06:02, while Spencer is drinking from his water bottle, there's an obvious editing splice in the tape, meaning something was cut out. Since this video is from "JihadWatchVideo" recording an event for the group Spencer is affiliated with, "ACT for America", we may reasonably surmise that Spencer himself had a few seconds edited out, right at the point where he's discussing the problem of Zuhdi Jasser with that female audience member -- it's a problem for her, at any rate, not for Spencer, apparently; for right after the seeming edit splice in the tape, he says:

" -- look, I don't really want to talk about Zuhdi Jasser because he's a good guy... and I don't doubt that Zuhdi Jasser's heart is in the right place..."

Perhaps that odd edit splice represents a gap in time during which Spencer could not help himself and said some unkind words about Jasser, then before airing time on YouTube, decided to have those seconds scrubbed (thanks to reader GodlessKafir for catching this detail on the video).

This reflects a curious (and serious) dereliction of civic duty in Spencer. I mean, for crissakes, his whole career involves analyzing the problem of Islam, and he can't take time out to probe the problem of the pseudo-reformers like Zuhdi Jasser, Maajid Nawaz, Asra Nomani, and Irshad Manji (to name the most prominent and conspicuously busy out there) who are exercising their sly taqiyya to fool not only the mainstream but also as "Better Cops" go further to fool many in the Counter-Jihad?  But instead when he examines this most important subtopic of the overall problem of Islam Spencer only fixates on the obvious Good Cops like Reza Aslan?

That's like a janitor who dutifully takes out the trash, but neglects to clean the toilets.