An old habit of tuning in CNN for news of the world at such moments as Saturday night’s ISIS-inspired attacks in London revealed something unusual on that network and its ilk: the use of such terms as “Islamist terrorism” and “Islamist extremist views.” Not that they came from a wide array of anchors or reporters, just from a single expert on the ground, Paul Cruickshank, identified as “CNN Terrorism Analyst.” Seems he has good London police sources and was speaking in terms of police knowing of a good several thousand potential Islamist attackers. He ran off a growing list of similar recent attacks, including at Ohio State University last year. And he uttered those taboo Islamist terms and wasn’t bleeped out.
None of this is over.
Wlady Pleszczynski is Executive Editor of The American Spectator.
