It brings to mind the classic piece of writing advice: Kill your darlings.
No doubt this is the real meaning of Psalm 109 when it says, "O Babylon, blessed is he who takes your children and dashes them against the stone." As C.S. Lewis says, "Knock the little buggers' brains out."

+J.M.J+
Well, at least it's not Grave Robbers from Outer Space.
In Jesu et Maria,

And he's still using it . (Okay, I figured out my formatting problem.)
It's encouraging, I think, that some people are politely disagreeing with him to his face:
One younger faculty member rose during the Q&A period to offer a thoughtful, and heartfelt, challenge:
“To say things with clarity is not to be the Catholic Taliban,” she said, adding that she found the phrase “profoundly offensive.”
“There are no suicide bombers in the Catholic church,” she said, “but we have had an epidemic of Catholicism Lite for the last 30 years.” Younger Catholics, she insisted, should not be dismissed as fanatics simply because they seek “fidelity and clarity.”

Naturally, there are some who object when someone defends orthodox Catholocism:
Her remarks were met with applause, suggesting she had struck a chord, though others later pulled me aside to say they found them strident.

Ah yes, Catholic Taliban must imply Catholic terrorism; that would explain all the bombs going off destroying things Catholics oppose.
Mr. Allen has been using this phrase at least since April of 2007. I can't find a date at that link, but it's linked here on April 12, 2007 and here on April 15.

Yes. Not woody at all.

Tal-i-ban... oooh, there's a tinny word...

That's a VERY hateful phrase! Yuck!

Good point, Jimmy. There's no parity whatsoever between 'Catholicism Lite' and 'Taliban Catholicism'. It's a vicious comparison.