NY TIMES TOES THE LINE--NO MATTER WHAT: Since it is fashionable in the media not to mention when terrorists--would-be and otherwise--are Muslims, it is not surprising when The NY Times writes about the Fort Dix Six, "It is unclear what role, if any, religion played in the attack Mr. Shnewer and the five other men are charged with planning."

But this time around--as The Volokh Conspiracy points out--The New York Times forgot to read The New York Times that reported 5 days earlier:

As the suspects were charged before a United States Magistrate Judge, Joel Schneider, prosecutors described a complicated operation that was at once ambitious and meandering, marked by deadly weapons and a certain lack of sophistication. The suspects alternately declared themselves eager to sacrifice their lives in the name of Allah and expressed ambivalence, worrying about getting arrested or deported for buying weapons or possessing a map of a military base.

...“When it comes to defending your religion, when someone is trying to attacks your religion, your way of life, then you go jihad,” Eljvir Duka, 23, who also went by the nickname Elvis, is quoted as saying in the complaint. [emphasis added]

Volokh also quotes clear indications from the actual criminal complaint that Islam played a key role in the attempted terrorist attack--unless 'Fatwa' is the name of a new Digimon.

So what role, if any, did media bias play in the writing of the May 14 article?
[Hat tip: Instapundit]

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