A Tangled Web

IN THE COCOON.





"....Even worse, we have a mainstream media that elides the malignancy of radical Islam. Reuters, for example, refuses to use the term “terrorist” to describe a monster like Zarqawi.



Last September, the New York Times ran a 1,750-word piece on the school massacre in Russia, never mentioning that the assailants were Islamic.



In August, the Financial Times profiled Moqtada al-Sadr, omitting the cleric’s devotion to the totalitarian doctrines of shari’a.



Worst of all is the recent bestseller Imperial Hubris, which purports to present a hardnosed look at Osama bin Laden—while ignoring his dedication to Wahabbism, Islam’s most intolerant sect. Instead, the book lauds the terror master as “pious, charismatic, gentle, generous, talented, and personally courageous”—and compares him to Robert E. Lee and Abraham Lincoln.



When our media decline to highlight the horrors of religious fundamentalism, no wonder so many people conclude the danger is exaggerated. "



Excellent article by Steven Vincent here.