The trouble people like Pam seem to have is an inability to multi-task. Once they get the ‘global jihad’ concept into their heads, they divide the world neatly into the good guys and the bad guys. If you agree with them about global jihad, you, by definition, cannot be the bad guys, so all sorts of scum like the EDL get swept into good favor, and anything against them won’t be believed, or will be excused.

If you disagree with them, even to a point, about global jihad (I believe it’s out there, just not, for example, that every Muslim in the world is a witting or unwitting agent of it, that the Muslim Brotherhood has taken over the LAPD, or that eating a halal turkey is a victory for the caliphate), you become the enemy, and anything good, sane, or upstanding you may do is for naught, because, you know, jihadis under the bed.

There is, in fact, an exact left-wing equivalent of this nightmare behavior, which I saw in action first. This does not make the right-wing version any less bizarre looking.

I also know a lady who went from the extreme left-wing version of this to the extreme right-wing version of this in about two years flat. She says the scales have dropped from her eyes. I think she’s changed her worldview without actually learning to do critical thinking.