Washington Post Publishes Radical Islamic Propaganda

Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 8:37:49 am PDT

For a special article on “Islam and Women,” the Washington Post today gives column space to an utterly deranged, hard-core Islamofascist sympathizer, Yvonne Ridley—without identifying her as anything but the “political editor of Islam TV.”

And it’s titled: How I Came to Love the Veil. Ridley’s premise is that Islam respects women much more than the Western world.

I think the mainstream media can’t possibly surprise me any more. Then they do something like this.

Yvonne Ridley is a member of George Galloway’s RESPECT party, and has written numerous essays defending Islamic terrorism. She described those murdered in last year’s terrorist attacks in Jordan as “collaborators.” She wrote, “I think I’d rather put up with a brother like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi any day than have a traitor or sell-out for a father, son or grandfather.” She described Shamil Basaev, the mastermind of the massacre of Russian school children at Beslan, as “a Shaheed,” or martyr. She was fired by Al Jazeera because she was too extreme even for them.

This is mainstream media at its absolute worst, promoting the propaganda of radical Islamists without even a hint of context. If they’re going to publish this crap, at the very least they should tell us who is writing it. What the hell is wrong with the Washington Post?

The Post’s ombudsman is Deborah Howell, and she can be reached at 202-334-7582 or at ombudsman@washpost.com. Contact the Washington Post and let them know what you think about this outrage.