Even as a surge of Islamic terrorism has arrived this month with 4 attacks in the U.S., including two in one day, and four attacks in Europe in just one week, the media is working overtime to make the terrorists sympathetic.
“At 13, He Was Selling Sneakers. At 18, He’s Facing Terror Charges.”
That’s how the New York Times spun its headline on Emir Balat, one of the IED terrorists who threw bombs at an anti-Islamization rally in New York City.
Then after multiple media outlets pushed the claim that Ayman Mohamed Ghazali, who tried to murder a bunch of kids in a Jewish Temple preschool was only responding after his ‘family members’ were killed in an Israeli strike (the family members turned out to be Hezbollah terrorists), the Times headlined his story as “The Michigan Synagogue Attacker was a Quiet Restaurant Worker”.
What the media is doing here is abundantly obvious. It’s leading its stories about Islamic terrorists by trying to humanize them. It’s not only Islamic terrorists. Antifa and the murderer of a health care CEO got the same treatment.
The Meaning of Luigi Mangione’s New Suits – New York Times
At Mangione’s Hearing, Giddy Fans Whisper – New York Times
Luigi Mangione Was Sent Socks With Heart-Shaped Notes – New York Times
These are information operations by the media and they’re part of the bigger game of justifying Islamic and Marxist terrorism while crippling any efforts to defend against them.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Daniel became CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2025.
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