For the Independent Weekly of Durham, North Carolina, writer Sam Wardle proves that he hasn’t a clue how the phrase “religious extremist” is properly defined. Wardle reveals his hatred of all things Christian in a piece titled, “For Rep. Sue Myrick, Islamic moderates are extreme, Christian extremists are moderate,” wherein he equates Rep. Myrick to a religious extremist.

But, I’d suggest that his confusion is endemic in the far left and proves to show why so many in the west don’t understand how to face and defeat the real religious extremism of radical Islam.

In a story about Representative Sue Myrick (R, NC) and her association with The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, as juxtaposed with her condemnation of radical Islam, Wardle sees no difference between a radical Islamist that might blow himself up with a suicide vest or cut off the head of a helpless captive and a Christian American that wants to use properly constituted law to have the Holy Bible used in the classroom. (more…)

As dogged New York Times readers know, the paper’s staggering capacity for hypocrisy is on all-too regular display. But there was an especially noteworthy example in a Feb. 18 story, published in the sports section under the heading “College Basketball.” Datelined Durham, N.C., the AP dispatch begins:

The woman who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape nearly four years ago has been charged with attempted murder, arson and other counts after a fight with her boyfriend, the police said.

That the accusations against the Duke lacrosse players were false and malicious is, of course, common knowledge. Indeed, everyone now knows the rape charge was utterly baseless from the get-go; and, more that they were victims not just of the accuser, Crystal Mangum, but of a vast cabal of left-wing Duke professors who pronounced them guilty based on zero evidence; and of a politically driven prosecutor whose contempt for the legal niceties was so glaringly apparent that he ended up doing time himself. Oh, and of a malicious and biased press irresistibly drawn to a ludicrous tale of the sexual ravaging of a poor black girl at the hands of rich, white, preppy male athletes precisely because it confirmed every hackneyed liberal cliché of race hatred and class exploitation that informs their provincial worldview. (more…)