What a monumentally stupid and ignorant comment. I suggest you find some other site to troll. We don't classify ANY Christian as taliban here and have no use for or affinity with any who does!
I’ve run into this with leftinlaws.
Whenever you suggest that a standard of behavior be established,
they accuse you of wanting to implement the Christian equivalent of the Taliban.
What about "Taliban Catholics"?
What he means by web-based McCarthyism is what John L Allen (of the National Catholic Reporter) calls the Catholic Taliban.Allens explanation of this term was recently spelled out to an audience at the University of Texas. It was necessary, Allen said, to strike a balance between two extremes. This is how he described these extremes:
On the one extreme lies what my friend and colleague George Weigel correctly terms Catholicism Lite, meaning a watered-down, sold-out form of secularised religiosity, Catholic in name only. On the other is what I call Taliban Catholicism, meaning a distorted, angry form of the faith that knows only how to excoriate, condemn, and smash the TV sets of the modern world........Singled out for special attention was RealCatholicTV.com, which, accused the paper, is hunting for traitorous nuns, priests or bishops throughout the American Church. Were no more engaged in a witch hunt than a doctor excising a cancer is engaged in a witch hunt, said Michael Voris of RealCatholicTV.com and St Michaels Media. Were just shining a spotlight on people who are Catholics who do not live the faith.
-- from the thread Attacks build up on the Taliban and the McCarthyites of the Catholic blogosphere