The Deseret News in Utah labels LGF an “ultraconservative web site,” because we’re concerned about the possibility of Islamic terror attacks, and unhappy with the media’s deliberate decisions to conceal information: Vitriolic e-mails zero in on ‘Muslim’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

And Elaine Jarvik and Deborah Bulkeley explicitly blame LGF for angry emails the paper has received, rather than examine their policy of hiding information from the public. They really don’t like it when their politically correct coverups are exposed.

On ultraconservative Web sites like littlegreenfootballs.com, the story of Monday’s shooting rampage at Trolley Square has been reduced to one fact: “Salt Lake City Killer Was a Muslim.” [A ridiculous, patently untrue assertion that shows their agenda. —ed.]

“The media did everything they could to avoid mentioning it, but it’s confirmed today that the mass murderer who terrorized a mall in Salt Lake City was a Bosnian Muslim,” reads the intro at littlegreenfootballs.com.

At MichaelSavage.com, the Muslim connection is a running-banner headline.

At jihadwatch.org, the story begins “Sudden Jihad syndrome? Maybe.”

The online stories, as well as Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s stories in the Deseret Morning News, have resulted in a barrage of vitriolic e-mails to the News from people either angry at the paper for not mentioning the religion of shooter Sulejman Talovic in Wednesday’s Web edition, or certain that because Talovic is Muslim that he must be a terrorist. [And we’re supposed to believe, apparently, that there is absolutely no connection between Islam and terrorism, and anybody who suspects one is either a racist or an ultraconservative. Or both. —ed]

There is no record that Talovic attended any of the mosques in the Salt Lake area, according to both Tarek Mosseir, a spokesman for the Islamic Society of Greater Salt Lake, or Bobby Ravish of Muslim Forum. Mosseir noted that many Bosnian Muslims are more secular than religious.

“Having lived under Soviet Union rules for decades, where religious freedom was not an option, a majority of these people” are not practicing Muslims, he added. “What I hear is that he came a couple of times at most, to Eid prayers, but I can’t confirm that he came.”

This attack from the Deseret News confirms that they were deliberately trying to hide this information from you.

UPDATE at 2/15/07 9:11:12 am:

Please note — I have not expressed any opinion on whether the mall attack was an act of jihad, personal or otherwise. I’ve raised the issue, with good reason. But I have deliberately refrained from expressing a conclusion, because we obviously do not know enough at this point to do that.

I have come to the conclusion, however, that the media are doing everything possible to hide connections to Islam in cases like this. It’s an absolutely predictable pattern, and they do it every time.

UPDATE at 2/15/07 12:02:21 pm:

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch has also responded to the Deseret News attack piece: Deseret Morning News hits ‘ultraconservative’ websites for suggesting Salt Lake shooting was jihad-motivated.

UPDATE at 2/15/07 12:09:27 pm:

Bookworm Room has a post on the latest media meme about the SLC shootings—post-traumatic stress syndrome: Is that the reason he did it?

UPDATE at 2/17/07 9:38:41 am:

An answer to Guardian columnist Dan Glaister here: Guardian LA Correspondent Gets His Smear On.