Thursday, June 17, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Richard Landes: Demopaths, Cognitive Warfare and the UN: On banning Islamophobia - 'One of the key dimensions of global Jihad's cognitive war against the West is the need to disguise the nature of the "weak" aggressor in this asymmetrical war. If the West knew what radical Islam wanted, they'd oppose it firmly, and they'd have no chance to position themselves favorably over time. Thus, while some of them play tough cop (violent Jihadis like Osama and other Salafi Jihadis), others play nice cop, and argue they would be "moderate" if only we treated them fairly. Since this desire on the part of violent, fascist, even genocidal Islamic triumphalists who want to create a global Dar al Islam, is so ferocious and painful to contemplate, most liberals prefer to believe their demopathic pretenses to moderation...'
