the ISISberg

A recent headline on Jihad Watch, building on a Breitbart report:

“With collapse of the Islamic State, Europe and U.S. flooded with thousands of jihadis”

Has anyone in the Counter-Jihad Mainstream (never mind the broader Western Mainstream, blind as a bat to the problem of Islam) considered that this was the strategy of ISIS all along?

What everybody thinks, apparently, is that the main motive of ISIS has been to found a return to the Caliphate and try to initiate world conquest one piece at a time -- while having Satanic fun massacring, beheading, raping, torturing and terrorizing.

Has anyone in the Counter-Jihad Mainstream (never mind the broader Western Mainstream, blind as a bat to the problem of Islam) considered that this was not in fact the intended present goal, since Muslims know they can't topple the West (as it stands) by military/paramilitary means?

It is more reasonable to work from the premise that the only hope Muslims have for bringing down this vast, complex, sophisticated, seemingly impregnable Fortress-Civilization called the West -- light years ahead of the Muslim world in technology, science & social infrastructure -- is to engage a two-pronged process:

1) interpenetrate the West with millions of Muslims and continue to do so for decades to come; and

2) continue to provoke, encourage & manipulate our Western PC MC reflexes to whitewash Islam so much as to virtually enable its deepening infiltration.

#1 will ensure that in the future, there will be enough Muslims throughout the West, infiltrated into every social nook and cranny, to be able to implement military/paramilitary actions that, unlike the terror attacks they've done to date, will have a chance to successfully destroy our civilization.

#2, meanwhile, will help to ensure that #1 continues to proceed without any obstacles other than the false obstacle based on the specious premise of a division between "Extremist Islamism" and a supposedly benign "Islam" (or the Counter-Jihad Mainstream version of this, the division between "Jihadists" and "Reformist" or "Secular" Muslims) -- a premise that actually facilitates the ongoing infiltration of Muslims (#1).

#1 represents quantity -- sheer numbers of Muslims.  Meanwhile, #2 reflects the quality of their presence in the West -- i.e., sufficiently deep infiltration in the future to gain access to areas they still, in our time, might have trouble penetrating, in order to pull off horrific terror attacks far worse than 911, and far more numerous than what we've seen to date.

And a perverse aspect of this two-step process -- perhaps the most perverse of all -- is that the sporadic, seemingly disorganized spates of terror attacks (and plots to attack stopped by Western intelligence in time), slowly increasing but not so much that it would wake the West up too soon, actually have had the effect of strengthening Western Denial about the breadth & depth of the problem of Muslims.  It's not a stretch of plausibility to assume that the more intelligent Muslim jihadists and their networking leadership have wised up to this perverse weakness of the West, such that they would reasonably conclude that terrorism helps their cause of Stealth Jihad. Let us imagine a hypothetical conversation between leading jihadist strategists: 

"Hey, Habibi, can you believe it? The more we attack them, the more their representatives in the press, government and society say that the problem is NOT Islam, NOT Muslims!"

"Yeah, bro, it's crazy, isn't it?"

"But remember, brothers, while this strange fact about our eternal Enemy is true -- thanks be to Allah! -- it would be prudent of us to keep the number and size of attacks down, since we are not ready to go into Phase 3 yet."

"Most wise words, Sheikh Big Butt. The West remains too strong -- thanks to the evil Shaytan -- for us to oppose them in full daylight with our masks off, so we must keep the scale of our terror down."

"Yes, it is a paradox we must continue to cultivate: We must maintain a scale of terror sufficiently high to continue to trigger their perverse reaction of defending Islam and Muslims; but we also must take care to keep that scale of terror sufficiently low so that it does not rise to the level of waking up our eternal Enemy too soon, enabling them to ruin our chances for destroying their miserable House."

"Praise be to Allah!"