Some people will defy reason, logic, the contents of Islamic teaching and the historical record in order to avoid being called “racist,” “bigoted” and “Islamophobic.”
Back in the real world, “jihadism” doesn’t even exist. It’s just one element of Islam. Go to any Muslim country and you won’t find a single person who will say “Those people are jihadists, not Muslims.” The people who are doing this are just trying to exonerate Islam from the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings, and trying to preserve their own self-image as tolerant and non-bigoted.
What motivates the entire endeavor to find some name for this phenomenon other than “Islamic jihad.” People have been taught that decent folk don’t criticize other people’s religions, and that to do so is bigoted and hateful. They can’t bear to think of themselves as bigoted and hateful, so they make excuses for Islam.
Add to this the confusion caused by the fact that there are lots of Muslims who are decent people. Non-Muslims see that and assume, wrongly, that there must be an alternative, benign form of Islam. And so once again, they draw back from calling the thing by its right name. But such a form of Islam doesn’t actually exist. There are just people who are equivalent to nonobservant Jews, Christians, etc.
“‘They don’t have to fight alone’: Why victims of jihadism are turning to the Jews,” by Danielle Greyman-Kennard, Jerusalem Post, November 7, 2026:
…The second major achievement, he said, was that the coalition was helping people understand that the problem is jihadism, not Islam or Muslims.
“The urgency is that people in the West need to see the enemy stripped of its religious garb. It’s jihadism,” he said, maintaining that the issue was not Islam itself….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely! Every muslim accepts that jihad is an inherent part of islam. Sometimes, they may invent terms like salafists or taqfiris, but they never use the term jihadists in describing their enemies. But the jihadists do call themselves jihadists
somehistory says
Have these people not been listening? muzzies say they do “jihad”….as in exercising, eating right, and being a *better* muzzie. So the very word “jihad” comes from the mouths of muzzies who wish to conceal the evil parts of the application of that word.
This is scraping the bottom of the barrel in the container of excuses so muzzies can continue to make the uninformed …as Ricky Ricardo would say….”look through a sweater.”
Paul Bunting says
More white guilt denial. Excusing the enemy while the enemy is breaking down the door.
Rob Porter says
Recently I saw Senator Ted Cruz, for whom I usually have a very good regard, trying to explain the difference between ‘Islam’ and ‘Islamism’. It was a convoluted, tedious and silly effort and I wondered why he and so many others in Congress don’t bother to invite Robert Spencer to talk with them and explain a few harsh realities about Islam.
somehistory says
A muzzie from Gaza is going to challenge Fetterman in PA. The scuz claims it’s time to go against Israel and the (pretend) mistreatment of ‘palesitnians.’
Cruz is just trying to keep his seat.
PRCS USN (ret) says
He babbled through the same nonsense on a podcast of his I saw recently.
The man still can’t articulate the NYC Mayor’s name.
No, Ted, it’s not Mandami.
40 rounds says
Yes it is one of their many pillars of insanity
Rob R says
What’s stopping you from standing with them?