Give the guy a break. He seems to be on the right track. He cannot comment on every issue under the sun in a few paragraphs. This was enough to get him to start looking over his shoulder for the time being. Lets accept we might have some allies and hope it might lead to more, but with our eyes wide open.
I just take this as a very mild encouragement.
Maybe I'm not all that enthralled about dress code policies. If I were a muslim adhering to the principle of the hadiths and taqiya -- I'd trump these kinds of concessions ('you can trust us, we're fighting the radical elements to get rid of this black curtain dress') while maintaining the real core of my cult ('we'll kill you if you leave, and if you don't join us we'll kill you').
This just seems like a distraction to me. Ignoring the core issues is not refusing to comment on 'every issue under the Sun'. Its ignoring the core problem. I agree, keep your eyes wide open.