Austere Religious Scholar?

“Austere Religious Scholar at Helm of Islamic State dies at 48” was the headline for the Washington Post announcing the death of Abu al-Bagdadi at the hands of United States Special Operations Forces.  The actual obituary referred to him as “terrorist-in-chief” but that was quickly stealth edited to “extremist leader of Islamic State.”  For those who don’t seem to recall Abu al-Bagdadi he was the founding head of ISIS.  A group known for the slaughter of innocents throughout the middle east and Africa.  He liked beheadings, torture, burning people alive, raping and just plain old killing of anyone who didn’t fall in line with his world views.

Almost two years ago the Washington Post decided its new motto should be “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”  I wrote a piece on that just the other day.  It would seem the agenda of the WP is not to preserve democracy so much as it is to cast history in any light that discredits President Trump.  One can argue the news media has always been jaded, but the current crop of woke young journalists don’t seem to have a grasp on how to use the language to do much more than present the woke version of a story.  Facts be damned.