There are many ways to describe a terror leader in a headline. But the Washington Post referred to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a headline as an “austere religious scholar.”
The Post has since changed the headline to “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48.”
The original obituary had that “austere religious scholar” language in the first paragraph and proceeded to tell his story within that framework:
When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took the reins of the Islamic State of Iraq in 2010, few had heard of the organization or its new leader, an austere religious scholar with wire-frame glasses and no known aptitude for fighting and killing….
The Washington Post writes harsher about President Trump then they do about this animal who beheaded thousands of people.
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10 Responses
Does “Austere religious scholar” mean to imply that Islam is violent?
I have boycotted this schmatte and other liberal media for years. I never watch them, do not buy their print editions, and won’t even open their websites. They are the extreme portrayal of the lowest levels of morals, and they should be boycotted everywhere else. Truth has zero to do with their reporting, and their journalism with an agenda is simply nauseating. I do not find this report even surprising.
@interjection
I am completely unsure what they meant to imply, but when i thought of the possibility which you presented, i realized that they SPECIFICALLY omitted his muslim religion
No, it is comparing this beast to a scholarly cleric.
So the next time you read anything from The Washington Post, keep in mind that the author shares an office with the utterly evil individual who wrote this obituary. And don’t believe a word they tell you.
They meant to say he was an ehrliche Muslim terrorist and shochet. Sometimes I think they’ve turned the editorial process over to a government-surplus computer using Polish artificial intelligence software. No living reporter could be that dumb (or am I being too charitable to the journalistic profession.
There’s a reason it’s called The Washington Compost! Well deserved! I’m surprised they didn’t call him a pious, chareidi Jew, with that long dumb beard!
If Trump killed him, wouldn’t most Democrats consider that to be a character reference. To be fair, if Trump murdered some frum Jews, the Washington Post would write a really nice article about them.
I know nothing about Muslim scholars, but is it really that inconceivable to some of you that a Muslim cleric could also be the leader of a terrorist, murderous organization? You give them too much credit.
how they managed to kill two birds with the proverbial one stone
give credit to The Washington Post
now in the average person’s subconscious when he thinks religious scholar will make association with this terrorist
plus
this is to diminish any credit that one would naturally associate with the conservative right for this operation
interjection,
No it does not imply violence. I think it inplies an innocence and purity, which is why we should be outraged.
All of the religious scholars I know are not violent. “Austere” does not imply violence.