tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post9108462276574236315..comments2023-11-05T01:45:58.784-07:00Comments on The Hesperado: Time for another "Smiling Faces" update...Hesperadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post-9793973869750356272015-11-06T12:56:25.167-08:002015-11-06T12:56:25.167-08:00P.S. to my above comment:
And when there are Good...P.S. to my above comment:<br /><br />And when there are Good Cops (and Better Cops) around to massage the meme of the Vast Majority of Decent Muslims, the PC MCs feel encouraged to reinforce their incentive to distinguish and marginalize any obvious extremists (such as ISIS) and detach them from Most Muslims and from the Islam of Most Muslims -- because to connect them too closely (or even at all) would lead the PC MCs to consider the horrid thought that those billion plus Brown People are beholden to an evil and dangerous ideology -- and to think that would be a thought crime of "bigotry" and "racism", the worst crime to the modern white Western PC MC.Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post-72246099088938769342015-11-06T12:52:21.741-08:002015-11-06T12:52:21.741-08:00Nobody,
"I'd argue that ISIS tends to un...Nobody,<br /><br />"I'd argue that ISIS tends to undermine the TMOE argument. If ISIS were indeed a TMOE, we wouldn't see them so quickly build up not just its domination of Eastern Syria and Western Iraq, but also the endorsement of it by Jihadi groups all over the world..."<br /><br />Well, you and I can see it, but I'm thinking of the PC MC perspective, which operates under deep denial, and as long as they can see a putative majority of Muslims not joining ISIS (and even "fighting against ISIS"), they keep defining ISIS as the TMOE. The point is, as you and I know, it's a metastasizing "Tiny Minority" that in so many ways, including your list and in many other ways, leads the reasonable mind to connect the dots to a systemic problem beyond ISIS, pertaining to Islam at large. But when there's tremendous incentive to perpetuate that denial, the threshold that would lead to discarding the TMOE as a workable concept remains irrationally high.Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post-14282084868342112642015-11-04T03:45:11.844-08:002015-11-04T03:45:11.844-08:00It was a wonderful chance to visit this kind of si...<br />It was a wonderful chance to visit this kind of site and I am happy to know. thank you so much for giving us a chance to have this opportunity! I will be back soon for updates.<br /><br />Working at <a href="http://www.buyessays.us/" rel="nofollow">college paper writing service</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post-88320219008351728012015-11-03T08:48:34.402-08:002015-11-03T08:48:34.402-08:00Hey Nobody -- nice to see you again! You're r...Hey Nobody -- nice to see you again! You're right of course on both accounts. Your prescription for ISIS flockers is wholly reasonable, but the PC MC anxiety about not alienating their resident Muslims prevents them from seeing it. Overall, though, I consider ISIS to be a potential distraction from the larger problem of Islam, for ISIS has a tendency to reinforce the TMOE meme which, on the flip side, by way of contrast makes the non-ISIS Muslims seem less problematic (or not problematic at all, depending on your degree of PC MC). On a more microcosmic level, it's the same phenomenon we see when Anjem Choudhery is on stage with a Muslim "Reformer" like Maajid Nawaz: Choudhery's blatant antics make Maajid seem more "moderate" than he is (or make him seem "moderate" at all, even though he's not). <br /><br />I.e., the Bad Cops help the Good Cops infiltrate more effectively.Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.com