David Brooks writes: “How much is religion involved in jihadism, or psychology, or politics?…For clarity on that question, it helps to start with William James’s classic work, ‘The Varieties of Religious Experience.’” I might have suggested a different book. How about the Qur’an? When one opens the Qur’an to answer the question “how much is […]
New York Times: Only “fringe interpretations of Islam” justify violence, “mainstream majority view is peaceful”
Max Fisher, now of the New York Times, here spends 1,764 words purportedly to explain what the phrase “radical Islam” means and why it is controversial, and devotes nary a single one of them to exploring the Qur’an, or the teachings and example of Muhammad, or the doctrines of the various schools of Islamic jurisprudence […]
NY Times: “Unlikely anything will ever explain why” Orlando jihad happened
Establishment counterterror analyst Peter Bergen just can’t figure out why Omar Mateen committed mass murder in Orlando’s Pulse nightclub: “Why Do Terrorists Commit Terrorism?,” by Peter Bergen, New York Times, June 14, 2016: No doubt we will learn more in coming days. But it’s unlikely that anything will ever really explain why he did what […]
Muslims yes, Jews no: The hypocrisy of the New York Times
The New York Times always sides with Muslims and against Christians and Jews. It is not a reliable source of news and analysis. It is just another propaganda arm retailing the point of view that the political elites want you to hold — and that point of view is that special accommodation for Muslims is […]
New York Times: Governments can’t figure out why people become terrorists, they “defy a single profile”
This lengthy New York Times article is one long exercise in willful ignorance. “The brothers who carried out suicide bombings in Brussels last week had long, violent criminal records and had been regarded internationally as potential terrorists. But in San Bernardino, Calif., last year, one of the attackers was a county health inspector who lived […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: New York Times Portrays Islam More Negatively Than Cancer, Study Claims
Over at PJ Media I discuss yet another in an endless stream of attempts to rule honest reporting about the jihad threat beyond the bounds of acceptable discourse: It’s a “Major Study,” declares leftist site AlterNet: 416 Labs report states that there is a “significant bias” against Islam and Muslims in the New York Times […]
“Study” claims that the New York Times portrays Islam more negatively than cancer
This study is a classic example of how Leftists are out of touch with reality: “Headlines from recent NYT articles reinforce the report’s claims. Here are a few, from February 14-18: Sexual Misery and Islam; Iran’s Zarif Tells European Lawmakers Islamist Militancy Also Their Problem; Bangladesh Arrests Publisher for Books Said to Hurt Muslims; Trial […]
New York Times scours the land for Islamophobia, finds it in tossed beer cans
Islamic jihadists murdered 130 people in Paris in November. Islamic jihadists murdered 14 people in San Bernardino in December. Islamic jihadists have vowed to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale in the United States. The New York Times has never run a piece about the ideology that motivated those attacks and threats, and so […]
New York Times: “Real question” isn’t if something is wrong with refugees, but whether Germany is integrating them
True to form, the New York Times examines the mass sexual assaults by Muslim refugees in Cologne on New Year’s Eve and decides that they’re the fault of German authorities for not integrating the poor dears, most of whom arrived in Germany no farther back than about four months ago. The Leftist media, while it […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mainstream Media’s Multifarious Mental Junk
I have been watching, listening to, and reading all the multifarious mental junk that has been on offer on NPR and on CNN and on Fox, and at The Times and The Post and tutti quanti, and witnessing all these sudden scholars of terrorism, ranging from tough-guy ex-FBI agents to left-wing Democrats alike, offering every […]