What seems to be humiliating this individual isn't totalitarianism (he means us, which is the biggest hoot of the essay) or imperialism, but the failure of the Arab world to kill enough people to suit him. That should speak for itself.
Now about this "Qur'anic" business - here we have a fellow who thinks stonings and amputations are peachy keen complaining about human rights abuses in Israel and comparing the Taliban, of all people, to the former, admiringly. It should be clear here what standard this author is applying - it's laudable (in fact, quite in accordance with Shar'ia) to beat people for missing prayers, but an outrageous abuse to build a wall to keep homicidal mass murderers at bay. Clearly we are not dealing with a rational culture here. And our response to this individual and to people who are "humiliated" by the entirely just defeats that thugs, murderers, and despots are taking here is a simple one. It is force. This individual is not amenable to reason, is not responsive to a single set of laws for all, and will not cease inciting murder until the ground under his feet is wet with blood. The discourse he has chosen and the only one that he will recognize as legitimate, is blows. Blows he shall have.
What speaks for itself is that a nominally "respectable journal of liberal thought" gave this Jan character a pulpit for his insane and thoroughly despicable preachings.
This is not the kind of article a magazine that wants to taken seriously should publish. The Nation should be ashamed of itself. Katrina Van Den Heuvel should join a convent. Or, better yet, break out her burqa and join a mosque.