Disgraceful

New York Times Notices Jihad, Immediately Goes into Whitewash Mode
An excellent post by Robert Spencer dissects a New York Times article on the militant Islamic concept of “just jihad:” The New York Times notices the jihad ideology.
My favorite paragraph from the New York Times piece is this classic idiot-left moral equivalence argument from Georgetown University professor John O. Voll:

Islamic militants are hardly alone in seeking to rationalize innocent deaths, says John O. Voll, a professor of Islamic history at Georgetown University. “Whether you are talking about leftist radicals here in the 1960s, or the apologies for civilian collateral damage in Iraq that you get from the Pentagon, the argument is that if the action is just, the collateral damage is justifiable,” he says.

Voll, by the way, is an associate of Islamic apologist John Esposito, and is also the associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. That’s the Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal who gave $50 million to the Council on American Islamic Relations, and who offered Rudy Giuliani $10 million to issue a press release tying the 9/11 attacks to US support for Israel.
That’s who the Times calls when they need an opinion on Islamic terrorists killing innocent people.