“Moderate Muslim”: Political Language at its Finest George Orwell said, “Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Mike Kemp says, “Political language, when excellent, delivers a consequential message without the courier even acknowledging that a message is being delivered, and without the receiver knowing that a message was received. Ooooo, and even better, hyper-advanced political language, we’ll say, is when the courier delivers a message that he represents as being the exact opposite of what the message actually is, and when the receiver accepts the message under its premise and not its actual content. Oooooo, yeaaaaahhhhhh. That makes politicians quite literally slobber just thinking about it.” Put those two together, and we see that the phrase “moderate Muslim” is par excellence on both accounts. Let’s break this down, shall we? First, the term, “moderate”. WHAT, could that possibly mean? Well, without even consulting a dictionary, I can say I am confident it is a term denoting a relative position where something is “lesser” than that which it is being considered relative to. As in, “It’s moderately hot today.” or, “It’s raining moderately outside.” Now, after having written that and then having consulted the actual dictionary, I can tell you it’s definition is somewhat different. It takes the tack of the term as meaning “less severe”, “average” and “not extreme”. I say: “Same thing, different terminology.” You may not agree. This is my essay. So by what standard, exactly, is a “moderate Muslim” deemed moderate? Well – come on, this isn’t difficult is it? If you have three brain cells, you know the answer to this. Possibly if you only have two: By the standard of a radical Muslim. I mean, we don’t say that someone is “moderate” if they are more extreme than the best-known version of the thing in which they are being deemed “moderate”, do we? No, we only use the term “moderate” when a person is *less* extreme than the best-known version of the thing in which they are being deemed moderate. So, then, what is an “extreme Muslim”. Again: three brain cells, possibly two: 1) Sharia Law 2) Oppress women 3) Rape children 4) Kill, behead, mutilate, dismember. Oh, and they do all this publicly, like in soccer stadiums, for example. 5) Suicide bombers. 6) Bombers, bombers, bombers, bombers of any and all kind. 7) Twin Towers. 8) Etc. So let’s consider now: a “moderate Muslim” is a Muslim (affirmed by the term “moderate” and the term “Muslim”), however they are less than all this. What is the secret message being delivered without acknowledgment of a message being delivered; what, possibly, is the opposite message being overlaid on top of the secret message – like a mortally deceptive descriptive tag on a package; and what message is being received without the receiver even being aware the (s)he’s receiving a message – like a computer virus? It’s simple really: That “moderate Muslims” are “acceptable”. REALLY?!! Let me say that again: REALLY?!! Embracing just-only a little: 1) Sharia Law; 2) Oppression of women; 3) Raping of children; 4) Public killing, beheading and dismembering; 5) Suicide bombers; 6) Bombers, bombers, bombers …; 7) Twin Towers 8) Etc. is ACCEPTABLE?!! Yah, I think the only version of all THAT that is acceptable is NONE of that. So, really, if the courier were honest, and represented his message to be what it really is so that the receiver could consciously receive a fairly-represented message, “moderate Muslims” would be called “less evil Muslims”. REMEMBER that the next time you hear the phrase, “moderate Muslim”. Stripped of all its glorious Orwellian-Kempian shroud, cloud and misdirection, it simply means, “less evil Muslim”. - Mike Kemp, January 2015
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 05:25:06 +0000
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