Monday, March 13, 2006

Media shockingly ignorant of Muslims around us.

Mark Steyn writes that, in an article about the Iranian Muslim who plowed his SUV into innocent bystanders at the University of North Carolina, the New York times never once identified the culprit as a Muslim, nor did it state that the culprit had stated that he was avenging Muslims.

...the M-word appears nowhere in the Times report. Whether intentionally or not, ...[the New York Times] seem to be channeling the great Sufi theologian and jurist al-Ghazali, who died a millennium ago but whose first rule on the conduct of dhimmis -- non-Muslims in Muslim society -- seem to have been taken on board by the Western media:

The dhimmi is obliged not to mention Allah or His Apostle. . . .

Are they teaching that at Columbia Journalism School yet?

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