Johnson up the creek by Lawrence Auster

The other day, when I quoted Charles Johnson's relatively hard-line statement of November 15 about what he thinks needs to be done about jihadism, I observed that "this is not bad at all." Fair-minded fellow that I am, I had forgotten something obvious. On November 8, in response to a commenter who said, "I hope Charles isn't the one booted off the anti-jihad wagon, Johnson had replied, "They can't boot me off something I never jumped on." Now to any ordinary reader that would sound as though Johnson is saying that he has never had anything to do with anti-jihadism, and wants nothing to do with anti-jihadism. What credibility does he have, then, when he turns around a week later and says that in order to "deal with the jihad" we need "much stronger legal barriers to the spread of hardline ideology, including monitoring mosques and Islamic schools, [and] strictly limiting immigration from Islamic countries..." Where is this guy coming from? Does he himself know?

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