Islam is a giant game of “good cop, bad cop”.
You have the “bad cop” muslims. The Al-Queda’s, Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s of the world. They kill, maim, disfigure. They rant and rave and march and demand beheadings.
Then come the “good cop” muslims. These range from the soft spoken dulcet toned Imam that trots out on the stage with, sadly any President after any such attack to show us that the attackers aren’t representative of islam, to the CAIR types who speak in legal plattitudes. Their message is always the same: Yes, yes, violence is bad, and we dont condone this...but that shouldn’t stop us from looking at “insert whatever muslim grievence here”.
By Contrast, the Good cops seem reasonable. They are almost one of us. The Ted Baxter “we must not be partisan” types respect them for coming on the program, and would ridicule as foolish anyone who would say that they represented any danger.
But they are working for the same police force. Their goal is always the same. In fact, they’ve already discussed the strategy beforehand. THe goal, in the police analogy, is to move the accused closer to a confession. The Muslims want a confession of a different kind. A religous confesion. A muslim world. And whether through the strategy of moving quickly through fear of bombs, or slowly through the gradual, incrimental movement of pursuasion, the important thing is not the speed to these people. Its the movement. Constant movement.
Interesting anlysis.
That’s encouraging. I thought it was a game of “bad cop”, “worse cop”.