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Times Commemorates 9-11: Rise in Hate Crimes, Xenophobia Against Muslims

admin — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:31:00 +0000

The Times' special 9-11 section finds "rising hate crimes" and "antipathy" against Muslims in the U.S....but the "hate crime" rate against Jews is much higher. And an editorial laments the "rise of xenophobia" since 9-11, while Bill Keller suggests the paper got pressured from the left after the start of the Iraq War.

Clay Waters

The New York Times printed a special section on the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center terror attacks: 'The Reckoning: America and the World a Decade After 9/11.'

'Muslims Have Grown Up in a Newly Hostile Country': The United States?

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:36:00 +0000

Andrea Elliott's worthwhile cover story on a conservative Muslim working against radicals contains some wild overstatement: "Muslims have grown up in a newly hostile country, with mounting opposition to the construction of mosques, a national movement seeking to ban courts from consulting shariah, or Islamic law, and rising hate crimes against Muslims."

Clay Waters

Times reporter Andrea Elliott won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for a series of articles about Sheik Reda Shata, an imam in Brooklyn. In a speech to the Times newsroom after her victory, her editor lauded the series for helping to tear down "the wall of hatred" against Muslims in America.

NYT Gives False Impression That Catholic Medal of Honor Recipient Was Muslim

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:17:00 +0000

Andrea Elliott's front-page article in Monday's Times played up the thousands of Muslims in the U.S. military and how their service...is more necessary and more complicated than ever before, but gave the false impression that a Medal of Honor recipient named near the end of her piece was a Muslim himself, when he was actually Catholic.

Matthew Balan

Andrea Elliott's front-page article in Monday's Times played up the thousands of Muslims in the U.S. military and how their "service...is more necessary and more complicated than ever before," but gave the false impression that a Medal of Honor recipient named near the end of her piece was a Muslim himself, when he was actually Catholic.

Fort Hood Massacre Reveals Paper's Politically Correct Priorities

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:12:00 +0000

In its coverage of the Fort Hood massacre, the Times revealed its politically correct priorities: What do the killings mean for Obama's agenda and "the tensions Muslims can feel"? "The shootings at Fort Hood, however, pose a different problem for the president, by shining a spotlight on the tensions Muslims can feel inside the United States."

Clay Waters

The Times' coverage of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the radical Muslim U.S. Army major who killed 13 people and left dozens hospitalized at Fort Hood in Texas, has been fairly direct and forthright, compared to previous coverage of Muslim terror plotters. Yet the paper's speculation about Hasan's motives trod such familiar liberal paths as combat stress and anti-Muslim discrimination.

The Times Uncovers Lame Campaign "Attacks" on Muslims

admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:16:00 +0000

Is this it? "Among the incidents they cite are a statement by Mr. McCain, in a 2007 interview with Beliefnet.com, that he would prefer a Christian president to a Muslim one; a comment by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton that Mr. Obama was not Muslim 'as far as I know'; and a remark by Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, to The Associated Press in March that an Obama victory would be celebrated by terrorists, who would see him as a 'savior.'"

Clay Waters

Tuesday's front page featured a story by Andrea Elliott on Muslims' ambivalent relationship to the Obama campaign, "Muslim Voters Detect a Snub From Obama." Elliott talked to America's first Muslim congressman, Rep. Keith Ellison, who told her that the Obama campaign asked him to cancel a speaking engagement at a Michigan mosque out of fear it would send the wrong message.

Opponents of Muslim School "Divisive," "Self-Appointed Watchdogs"

admin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:43:00 +0000

Overdramatic Andrea Elliott: Opponents of a Muslim public school and its principal Debbie Almontaser are part "of a growing and organized movement to stop Muslim citizens who are seeking an expanded role in American public life."

Clay Waters

Monday's front page was dominated by a puff piece on the controversial former principalof a Muslim school, Debbie Almontaser, "Her Dream, Branded as a Threat." Almontaser was forced to resign her position as principal of the Brooklyn public school she founded, Khalil Gibran International Academy.

A Pulitzer Prize for Evasive Reporting?

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:28:00 +0000

Andrea Elliott's series on a Brooklyn-based Muslim imam won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing - but suffers from a lack of curiosity about the unflattering sides of its subject matter.

Clay Waters

The New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for its March 2006 series about Sheik Reda Shata, an Egyptian imam learning his way in America after taking over a Brooklyn mosque, a three-part series reported by Andrea Elliott.

Pulitzer Prize Winning Reporter & Editor Proud to Take Down "Wall of Hatred" Against U.S. Muslims

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:34:00 +0000

Andrea Elliott and her editor hope their Pulitzer Prize winning series on a Muslim imam in Brooklyn "helped open...doors" and remove bricks from the "wall of hatred" erected against Muslims in America.

Clay Waters

Courtesy of the media gossip site Gawker, we can read Andrea Elliott's speech to the newsroom after winning the Pulitzer Prize for her three-part series on the life of a Brooklyn imam, as well as that of her Metro section editor Joe Sexton.