Bruce Bawer, author of While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within and Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom, has joined forces with Little Green Footballs blogger Charles Johnson, in excoriating some moderately prominent conservative bloggers as “a bunch of kooks” for their embrace of unsavory elements in the European anti-jihadist community.
You know, when you start to get attacked by the extremists for being too damned extreme, you probably need to tone it down a mite.
UPDATE: This has been brewing for awhile but most readers are probably not familiar with the background. See Dave Weigel’s Washington Independent writeup, “Civil War Raging in Right-Wing Blogosphere; Terrorism-Watching Conservative Blogs Split Over Accusations of Bigotry and Treason” for a detailed account. Bawer’s lengthy piece, linked above, skips the blogospheric story, concentrating on the Euro angle.
