Deception by the New York Times

So the New York Times is at its worst when it feigns sensitivity to Muslims, when it has promoted directly and indirectly insensitivity to Muslims long before Sep. 11.  I remember when after the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, a reporter for the Times, Richard Bernstein, contacted me regarding interviews about Muslims in the US.  He said: I am sure that you will like that we are doing the series.  I said: of course, not.  The fact that Times decided to do a series, for potato's sake, on Islam immediately after the bombing is only to reinforce the association between Islam and terrorism.  This is akin to doing a series on Judaism after one of the many and regular Israeli massacres against Arabs.  So the Times today, wrote about how some right-wing anti-Muslim Americans inspired the Norwegian bomber.  Yet, the paper says nothing about information that he was also inspired by mainstream writers, like Bernard Lewis and Daniel Pipes and Bat Yeor.  In other words, someone should tell the Times: you, too, are an inspiration to anti-Islam bigots worldwide.