No Jihad Here, Move Along Now Clueless Infidels

The Toronto Star's noted apologist/shill for the Islamist perspective quotes another noted apologist/shill for the Islamist perspective--Prof. Juan Cole--to bolster his case that

1. We here in the U.S. and Canada are entirely to blame when middle class Muslims turn to "terrorism" (our "foreign policy" is the impetus); and
2. It is sheer "bigotry" to see any difference between "middle class" Muslim young'uns who turn against their society and other non-Muslim groups who do so.

Here's the "argument":

Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim World and professor at the University of Michigan, said in a telephone interview yesterday: "We're seeing a terrorism that's a form of violent international Muslim nationalism. It's mostly by those who're from the middle class – typical of such movements.

"We've had previous examples of such conflicting loyalties between one's sense of international solidarity with a cause or a movement or a people and the national policy of one's country – the Jewish Defense League, the Weathermen or, during the Cold War, Baader-Meinhof or the Red Brigades.

"There's nothing peculiar or particular about some Muslims doing it. To make it appear that way is just a form of bigotry."

Quel relief! In that case we can safely discount "jihad is the way; sharia is the goal," the line that has activated the jihad imperative since the Middle Ages and that has placed a goodly (Godly?) portion of the world under Islam's thumb.

At least, that's what Harpoon, that old dissembler, is hoping we'll do.

My letter:

I would like to thank Prof. Juan Cole, as quoted by Haroon Siddiqui, for coming up with a new euphemism for jihad, the age-old holy war that aims to enshrine sharia, Islam’s “universal” law, world-wide.

From now on, to avoid being called a “bigot” (the worst thing one can be called in these hyper-sensitive, politically correct times), I will, à la Juan, refer to jihad as “violent international Muslim nationalism.”

Why, it’s almost as delicious--in a dark, Orwellian way--as U.S. Homeland Security honcho Janet Napolitano dubbing jihadi terrorism a “man-caused disaster.”