Vanilla moslem is not a racist term.

It means that she lives under the protection of the western legal system as a western woman who adopts islam as her religion but then adapts it to her western world view (eg pretending that islam from the beginning teaches equality of women, is pro human rights, preaches acceptance/tolerance of other religions, accepts democracy). At least, she will pretend this publicly or in discussion with disbelievers even if she might not believe a word of it privately. Who know? Maybe she does really believe it? I have my doubts.

She then projects this world view on all moslems everywhere in the world (cherry picking scholars and the koran – and twisting both out of context) while claiming that certain countries (eg Pakistan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia) and groups like isis are not practising “true” islam or are not islamic. This is a common but very presumptuous position for Carland and her ilk to take.

Consider for a moment how arrogant people like Carland are. On the one hand, they will argue that islam has no central authority, is not a homogeneous group, so we can’t accuse it of having terrible views on gays, but then she will “speak” for the religion when she confronts critics on its misogyny, homophobia, sharia creep, and other supremacist activities.

Of course, Carland is speaking to the wrong audience. We disbelievers don’t need to be taught the “truth”. We don’t give a damn about islamic theology or hermeneutics. We only care how moslems behave.

The people who should be reading about these “misconceptions” of the religion are the moslem men who rape little girls and force them to marry; and think it’s their right to harass disbelieving women; the moslem wife beaters; the moslem women (and girls) who are forced to live in this regime; the islamic governments who not only permit, but actively condone this behaviour.

Carland’s book would be worth a read for the bald faced lying about the religion and what it means to be a muslim and have these obnoxious beliefs. It may be hoped (if anything) her delusions might spread far enough that moslem women could actually believe that they do have rights. An uprising of the women in islam world wide could well be the thing that brings this malignant ideology to its knees.

She won’t for a second engage in any discussion about the preposterous supernatural truth claims the religion makes about itself: The prophethood of mohammad, the inspiration of the koran, the alleged miracles of the koran (mohammad riding on a winged horse still brings a chuckle).

It may well be time for Carland’s book to be written. But let’s not pretend it’s the “truth”. It should then be given (free of charge) to every moslem woman in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Indonesia.