Thread by @burweila

Thread. Decades of non-Muslims carrying the water for Islamist extremists whose primary victims are Muslims.

More insidiously, such obscurantists conflate Islamism with Islam -directly tarnishing the faith and stoking Islamophobia- while camoflaging Islamists in the West.

Oct 2020: Aside the "copy and paste" journalism on display below, this is the grossly misleading headlines reporting on the beheading of French school teacher Samuel Paty. These are two major mainstream outlets - not fringe alternative media, Al Jazeera or satire site.

Two terrorist leaders of the world's most brutal, extremist, leviathan regimes that oppress and behead Muslims, hang them from cranes, throw them off buildings, enslave, mass rape Yazidi women and girls while carrying out attacks globally are headlined in these Kafkaesque terms:

After widespread global uproar, @washingtonpost quickly modified its obscene headline from #IS public relations to reflecting the true job description of a man who personally ensured there was a parent or child crying everyday:

One of my personal favorites is this 27 year old vintage. The peacenik businessman referred to below is Osama bin Laden.

In the coming days and weeks, I will be adding not just headlines, but reviews of articles as well as political maneuvers that attempt to empower Islamists, terrorists and terror adjacents in #Libya, MENA and EU at the expense of civil society, peace, critical thinking & justice.