Tuesday, October 29, 2019
When a terrorist butcher became an ‘austere religious scholar’
The Left are sometimes so extreme as to make of themselves a laughing stock. In apparent mourning over the execution of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Washington Post (sister publication of the NYT) described him as an “austere religious scholar” in one of its headlines:
The obituary, written by The Post’s National Security reporter Joby Warrick, followed confirmation of al-Baghdadi’s death in a US military operation in Syria on Saturday night.
It detailed al-Baghdadi’s rise to the terrorist group’s shadow leader from what the paper described as his origins as a “religious scholar with wireframe glasses”.
The headline read, “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48”.
The story first appeared to run under a headline that referred to al-Baghdadi as the “Islamic State’s ‘terrorist-in-chief’”. It was unclear why or who decided to change the “terrorist” label to “austere religious scholar”.
The Post then changed the headline again, settling on “extremist leader of Islamic State”.
The Washington Post vice president of communications Kristine Coratti Kelly told Fox News, “Regarding our al-Baghdadi obituary, the headline should never have read that way and we changed it quickly.”
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham tweeted that she had “no words” regarding the Post headline.
Former press secretary Sean Spicer also responded, writing, “Stop, read this & think about it: last night a ruthless, brutal terrorist who threatened our country & is responsible for the death of American citizens was killed in a successful operation by US military & @washingtonpost described #Albagdadi as an ‘austere religious scholar’.”
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There is no doubt this will become a source of mockery. All sorts of bad guys will in future be decribed as "austere religious scholars".
The whole thing reminded me of the way Leftists tried to save bloodthirsty gangster Tookie Williams from execution in 2005. They were all concerned about Tookie, with no apparent concern about the innocents he killed. They even had the muscleman photographed wearing spectacles. Are spectacles a sign of holiness to Leftists?
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3 comments:
To answer your question - "bespectacled martyrs" are useful to the leftists until they come to power. As Pol Pot showed us in Cambodia, they are then a sign of the "intelligentsia" who might resist the great way of equality, and their wearers must be discarded.....
They ought to be ashamed of themselves. Then they need to take more than a moment of reflection on why the general public has absolutely no faith in the accuracy of the legacy media and while they're at it, why we call them Fake News.
The Washington Compost like the New York Pravda when they call a terrorists leader and religious leader then their idiots i mean look at f how Arafat was treated this PLO leader got standing ovations from those UN scum suckers and UN leader COFFEE CUP ANNAN has visited Saddam and Castro
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