A moderate Syrian opposition "writer" widely cited in Western media

His name is Omar Madaniah.  Look at this posts in Arabic: full of vulgar and crude sectarianism, misogyny (referring to women as "whores", anti-Semitism and of course anti-Shi`ism (he calls of the extermination of Shi`ites), and he celebrates here the death of an American soldier. Yet he is widely cited in Western media: BBC and even Brietbart.

PS I am told that he erased his post about the need to "extract" Shi`ites from the Arab world. But here is (above) an image capture.