Our "Reliance" on the Traveler (again)

I wrote about this before -- generally speaking here, and more specifically here and here. 

In that last "here" I zeroed in on Hugh Fitzgerald, lionized in the Counter-Jihad as a perfect analyst who can never make a mistake; but I've noticed an unsettling tendency he has to be what I used to call "asymptotic" -- a curious condition whereby the Counter-Jihadist seems in his rhetoric to come perilously close to a full-blown opposition to Islam, but then for various reasons at some point seems to encounter an invisible force field that causes him to recoil from going all the way.

These days, since Hugh returned to Jihad Watch, every time I read one of his essays, I encounter some annoying nougat plump in the middle of otherwise robustly anti-Islamic prose.

So, his recent Reliance upon the Traveler missive was delivered on my doorstep, and the very opening sentence offends:

Mohamad Tawhidi, the well-known “Imam of Peace” who smites the Islamist enemy hip and thigh, has compiled a useful list of Islamic groups engaged in terrorism. 

Mohamad Tawhidi is the latest flavor of Better Cop Muslim "reformer", whom Hugh evidently admires and relies upon (and thus trusts).  I've had occasion to mention him before, as with this old Hesperado posting (in which Robert Spencer also shows the wrong instinct.)  For this is a curious way to introduce the handy list Tawhidi came up with.  How about saying, "Mohamad Tawhidi, the self-styled “Imam of Peace” who puts on a show of opposing 'Islamists' , has compiled a list of Islamic groups engaged in terrorism which we can find useful, even if we suspect his motivations, so long as he reveres the biggest Islamist of them all, Mohammed.".

But no, Hugh can't bear to put it this way, apparently.