"Where's the Big W...?"

Recently, I commended a fellow who goes by the moniker "thebig_W" -- a new (or apparently  new) member of the Counter-Jihad Readership (defined as such, at minimum, by lodging comments on various discussion forums and/or social media sites -- pre-eminently Jihad Watch, followed by the Front Page and Gates of Vienna sites).

The link above leads to a posting on Jihad Watch and to Big W's bold dressing down of Robert Spencer. I kept checking back to see how other members of the Readership reacted to Big W's comment.  Surely, they must agree, right?  Wrong.  Even though the posting aroused over 70 comments, the only responses to Big W were from our old friend "gravenimage" insisting counter-factually that Robert Spencer is not being fooled by stealth jihadists, even though Big W showed, through the simple examination of Spencer's own words, straight from the horse's mouth, that in fact it does seem that he evidently is being fooled (or is lying).

Interestingly, we see among those comments linked above a pro-Islam reader, one "lebel", making the interesting claim, in response to Big W, in effect that Robert Spencer is only pretending to be equivocating on the problem of Islam so he can have "plausible deniability". I've often wondered if Spencer is doing that, sort of the Counter-Jihad version of the Stacy Keach character in the movie American X. But I tend to think Spencer actually has an underbelly of nougat about the whole problem. Either way, Spencer's rhetoric, I maintain, is putting the brakes on the much needed cultivation of rational prejudice in the West.