How Not to Support Moderate Islam

GetReligion has a nice critique of this Newsweek edit--er, article which ostensibly tells about intolerant Christians and tolerant Muslims. The problem is, the article does more to bolster the theory of Muslim extremism than that Christians are intolerant. I can't do a better job, so head to GetReligion for the story.

What it does note, however, is how many journalists put on their blinders where Christianity and Islam are concerned. So desperate to portray Islam as inclusive and peace-loving, reporters downplay the numerous frequent violent episodes triggered by Muslim intolerance for difference, free expression, or individualism. Equally, journalists desire to portray Christians as Inquisition-and-Crusade-causing, blood-thirsty hypocrites that they turn the mildest expressions of difference as violent or intolerant. Such excesses do little to bolster the MSM's flagging reputation as bastions of truth and objectivity.