Michelle Malkin takes the PC-obsessed media to task for ignoring the jihad motivations of DC snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo: The DC Sniper’s Jihad. The media’s willful ignorance isn’t something that just started, either; from the very beginning nearly all reporters were pushing the “angry white loner” theory. Then, when Muhammad and Malvo were apprehended, they began pushing the “psychotic serial killer” angle. A few days ago I watched as Wolf Blitzer interviewed yet another expert on his CNN show, and both of them utterly ignored the Islamic connections and talked solely about how the Malvo drawings revealed a “disturbed, antisocial personality.”

December 10, 2003 — FROM the moment John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were arrested in the Beltway-area sniper case last fall, the media and Muslim activists wanted us to believe that the serial killings had absolutely nothing to do with Islamic terrorism:

* CNN downplayed Muhammad’s religious conversion - calling him by his old name, John Allen Williams, when his identity was first revealed. Malvo was cast as a clueless dupe with no true convictions.

* Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) argued: “There is no indication that this case is related to Islam or Muslims.”

* Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper railed against conservative commentators such as the indomitable Mark Steyn, who had taken note of Muhammad’s Islamic faith and his reportedly expressed anti-American sentiments after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Roeper also ridiculed National Review columnist James Robbins for astutely observing that the sniper was acting “like a jihadist warrior.” Roeper smugly concluded: “An awful lot of conservatives really, really wanted the snipers to be terrorists. But they were wrong. I’ll say that because they never will.”

Now it is time for Roeper, CAIR and the militant “Religion of Peace” propagandists to face the facts once and for all. A chilling stack of evidence, introduced by Malvo’s own lawyers last week at his capital murder trial, exposes accused sniper Malvo as an unrepentant Muslim extremist.

UPDATE: And here is a perfect example of the media determinedly ignoring the Islamic influences in Malvo’s drawings, from the Baltimore Sun. Not a word about jihad. Not a word about Islam. Not a word about the drawings of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Instead this article focuses entirely on Lee Malvo’s obsession with the film The Matrix: Malvo art indicates ‘Matrix’ obsession.