New York Times, attempting to exonerate Malaysian pilot, lies about Robert Spencer

By: American Decency Staff

UPDATE: I just arrived in southern California for the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s weekend conference, after leading an all-day private seminar yesterday in San Francisco, and see that Robert Mackey has revised his piece. The passage in which he claimed that I said that Captain Zaharie was a suicide bomber now reads this way: “That photograph of the pilot’s T-shirt, and his support for Mr. Ibrahim’s political movement, led the anti-Islam blogger Robert Spencer to link Captain Zaharie with an Islamist cleric who has endorsed the tactic suicide bombing. However, the only evidence Mr. Spencer cited for his suggestion that Mr. Ibrahim is an Islamic extremist comes from the now-defunct website MalaysiaWatcher.com and another site, SarawakReports.org.”

Actually this is false as well, as the evidence that Anwar Ibrahim is associated with Sheikh Qaradawi is not just hearsay from a defunct website, but is photographic, as you can see. But again: what cares the New York Times for facts? Mackey also appends a correction: “An earlier version of this post stated incorrectly that the blogger Robert Spencer had claimed that the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 might have plotted a suicide bombing. Mr. Spencer did not make that allegation in a post on his blog, although he did claim that the leader of the political party the pilot supported was connected to an Islamist cleric who has expressed support for suicide bombing.”

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