Can't shake this Persian Flu...

The latest bout of Persian Flu (a peculiarly Counter-Jihad Mainstream malady) isn't the first time; it broke out at least twice before, most infamously back in 2009.  Back then, Diana West, Debbie Schlussel and Lawrence Auster were the only ones to see through it (since they weren't filtering their vision with rosy-green glasses), while Robert Spencer and Pam Geller swooned over the Freedom-Fighting Iranian People.

In 2009, as I noted here on my blog, only Diana West picked up on the important detail that the Iranian People revolting then weren't just some spontaneous conflagration of Liberty-Loving Iranians but were in fact in league with, if not led by, a canny & cunning Muslim cleric, Mohsen Kadivar.  Then, as now, Spencer seemed oblivious to -- or in willful denial of -- the backstage orchestrations of the "Movement".  So this week, Spencer posts a report indicating that, apparently, the Counter-Jihad's old nemesis, Former President Ahmadinejad was "reportedly arrested for inciting unrest against Islamic regime". 

Spencer, naturally, dismisses this out of hand with sneering ridicule:

f true, this is ridiculous, an attempt by the Islamic regime to find a fall guy. Ahmadinejad was always a true believer, an Islamic hardliner, whose blood bled for Khomeini and Khamenei. It hasn’t been Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inciting the Iranian people to chant that they don’t want an Islamic Republic and to praise Reza Shah. But it is a certain kind of poetic justice that the regime that this man served so indefatigably and ruthlessly has now turned its fury upon one of its fiercest defenders.

First of all, Spencer is making undue mileage out of tweet-reports that the demonstrators were indeed opposing the "Islamic Republic" and wanting an "Iranian" one instead. Not only is there no indication this is the broad sentiment of this coterie of demonstrations across the Iranian map, we also don't know whether it means they are opposed to an Islamic Republic per se, or just this particular "Islamic Republic" of the current regime.  But of course Spencer runs with the ambiguity in his favor.  Ditto for the praise of Reza Shah. At any rate, even a Reza Shah was a Muslim who admired Muhammad, and so only of use to us in a ruthless calculus of a Realislamik.  Spencer's use, however, seems to run deeper into rapturously rosy prose for these Iranian Muslims -- indicating, among other unfortunate things, his diametrically wrong instincts when it comes to our exigent need, if we want the West to survive Mohammedan devastation before the 21st century is out, to cultivate a rational prejudice against all Muslims.