Tuesday, August 12, 2008

CNN Avoids Mentioning Islam in Segment on 'Honor Killings'

Quite a feat: CNN has pulled off the MSM equivalent of describing a spiral staircase without using one's hands. It has managed to produce a segment on "honor killings" and related violence in the UK . . . without using the word "Muslim" or "Islam." CNN Newsroom anchor Don Lemon introduced the segment this afternoon at 1:37 PM EDT.

The network deserves some credit, I suppose, for airing the subject at all. But CNN's failure to mention by name the religion that lies at the root of the problem constitutes a particularly craven political correctness.

[in medicine it's called 'treating the symptoms', and never results in a cure - that requires addressing the cause...]

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