Stephen Schwartz’s Weekly Standard piece, “All the Hate That’s Fit to Print,” takes a close look at the American Muslim media. Not surpisingly, Schwartz finds some troubling rhetoric emanating from the non-mainstream periodicals:

When the shooter who chose July 4 to start a gun battle at Los Angeles airport’s El Al ticket counter turned out to be Hesham Mohamed Hadayet — an Egyptian native with a ‘Read Koran’ sticker on his apartment door — many people not unreasonably wondered if he had picked up his hostility to America and Israel at an extremist mosque. No evidence of Hadayet’s mosque attendance has been reported. What’s gone unremarked is that he could just as easily have been incited by the steady diet of violent rhetoric served up by the American Muslim community media — periodicals with names like The Minaret, Islamic Horizons, the Weekly Mirror International, and the Muslim Observer, which toe the anti-American, anti-Israel line of Saudi Arabia’s Islamofascist Wahhabi sect.

While the ‘mainstream’ Islamic establishment — groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the American Muslim Council (AMC), and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) — offers perfunctory support for the anti-terror war and hovers around President Bush for photo ops in mosques, the poison pens of its media produce an unceasing stream of insult and loathing directed against America. One expects appeals to the extremist jihad to be heard in the streets of Karachi, in the canyons of Tora Bora, and from the government media of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Some of the most strident voices, however, are here in the United States, directed not from the Middle East or South Asia, but from modern offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, and the Detroit suburbs.

These publications make no attempt to hide their attachments to international extremist groups.

Examples abound. Antacid available at the concession stand.

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