NY Times Picks Feminist Filipovic to Rip Islam Critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali

February 15th, 2021 10:51 PM

One would think that outspoken atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a feminist critic of religion, would earn the approval of the liberal New York Times. But since it’s the Islamic religion that she abandoned, the Times has treated Hirsi Ali with cool neutrality at best and open hostility at worst. The worst was on display in the paper's Sunday Book Review. Journalist Jill Filipovic’s…

The NYT Again Pushes Phony Trend of Hate Crimes in Trump’s America

May 1st, 2017 5:34 PM
The New York Times is rather desperately still trying to make the idea of a recent, election-related surge in hate crimes stick, even after so many infamous “hate crimes” have been exposed as hoaxes in the Trump era. The latest, from reporter Audra D.S. Burch, made the front of the National section of Monday’s Times, covering three-fourths of the page: “Lawmakers Seek Harsher Hate Crime Penalties…

CAIR, Packaged: NY Times Cries 'Islamophobia' With Gullible Coverage

November 26th, 2015 3:00 PM
It took two weeks after the mass slaughter by radical Islamists in Paris, but the New York Times finally finds itself comfortable with raising the false spectre of American "Islamophobia," with an enormous assist from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the so-called civil-rights organization many consider a Muslim pressure group, and whose ties to Hamas have been documented in…

NYT's Kristof Shows Numerical Incoherence to Promote Islam's Diversity

October 9th, 2014 10:56 PM
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof twisted numbers and lowered the moral bar while trying to prove "The Diversity of Islam." Kristof had a bit part in the now-famous rumble between actor Ben Affleck and the liberal atheist host Bill Maher on Maher's HBO show Real Time, with Affleck accusing Maher of racism for his hard criticism of Islam's intolerance and violence, and Kristof predictably…

MSNBC Cheers 'Feisty Campus Dissent' Forcing Commencement Speakers to

May 15th, 2014 12:31 PM
"Feisty campus dissent is back. And it’s winning," exulted msnbc.com's Aliyah Frumin in her May 15 story, teased on the main page with the header, "Commencement speakers drop like flies." [see screen capture below page break] "In the last few weeks alone, campaigns at three schools forced commencement speakers to pass up significant speaker fees rather than face angry campuses," Frumin noted…

Michael Graham: Brandeis Embraced Bill Ayers, Has Bred Terrorists

April 14th, 2014 9:49 AM
In one of a pair of Sunday posts at his web site, New England talk show host Michael Graham added an emphatic exclamation point to Brent Bozell's and Tim Graham's Saturday column condemning the cowardice and hypocrisy of Brandeis University's decision to revoke its commencement invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. In the other, Graham roasted the Boston Globe for backing Brandeis. Bozell and Tim…

Dear Media, Accurately Portraying Muslim Rage as Muslim Rage is Not Is

September 18th, 2012 9:39 PM
This week we learned what really gets the liberal media in a ... well ... rage.  It isn't the act of perpetrating violence upon the innocent.  No, it's calling out that rage for everyone to see.  In Liberal Land, words speak louder than actions. The media on the left side of the aisle took more umbrage with a Newsweek article titled, Muslim Rage, than they did with the incidents that…

Meet the Conservative Intellectual Elite: Kathleen Parker, David Frum

June 17th, 2010 11:19 PM
There's one big problem with the presentation of “The Party, In Exile," Pamela Paul's snobby but interesting front-page Sunday New York Times Styles section piece on a D.C. garden party featuring so-called conservatism in exile. As KarolNYC noted on her Twitter feed  -- it doesn't feature many actual conservatives. The caption under John Cuneo's illustration made the disparity clear: “Insiders On…

NYT's Kristof Characterizes 'Provocateur' Ayaan Hirsi Ali as Bomb-Thro

June 1st, 2010 4:15 PM
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has a bad habit of inappropriate flippancy, and it's on display in his review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's new memoir "Nomad," introduced with the headline "The Gadfly," that efficiently captures Kristof's condescending tone.Hirsi Ali is a feminist intellectual born Muslim in Somalia, raised in Saudi Arabia, escaped an arranged marriage, fled to the Netherlands…

PBS's Tavis Smiley: Far More Christian Terrorists Than Muslim Ones, Te

May 28th, 2010 1:40 PM
Tavis Smiley has apparently been asleep for the last ten years. That, at least, is the only logical explanation for his claim that Christains engage in terrorism far more often than Muslims. He also thinks the Tea Party is a comparably dangerous force to radical Islam."There are so many more examples of Christians who do that," Smiley claimed, referring to terrorism, "than you could ever give me…