Irony is tricky. Much of the time it essentially consists of saying the opposite of what you mean, as a way of expressing what you actually mean. When you say a more extreme version of what you actually mean, and want to backpedal, that's not irony. It's getting egg on your face.

I imagine if someone does start a thread about what's happening to the Muslim minority on. Burma, I imagine it'll likely get invaded by Islamophobes going on about Al Qaeda and Saudi Arabia and Rochdale and so forth. And Jim will, quite rightly, object. Now that is irony, of a slightly different kind.