Crusading Journalism

Well, here's a thing: a huge, lynch-mob squeal about Scary Muslims, which was splattered all over both the Murdoch Times and the Rothermere Daily Stürmer this summer, was based on no evidence. The stories concerned the foster placement of an alleged Christian who was an infant physically, rather than just mentally as stipulated by the Saviour. Supposedly this devout personage had been placed in an Islamic foster home where only Arabic was spoken, and where she was distressingly deprived of a crucifix, frightened with burqas and impiously forbidden from eating pork although the Saviour, being Jewish, famously recommended it three times a day with scratchings on the Sabbath. Astoundingly, an investigation by Tower Hamlets local authority has found every one of the allegations to be false, except for that single crime which automatically includes and implies all the rest: namely that an innocent British infant was in the camp of the infidel Untermenschen. How loud the Press apologies will be until next time is not as yet subject to reliable estimate.