Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Patrick Poole, author of an expose of Salah Soltan (also Sultan), has found himself the target of a defense of Soltan in the local Columbus, Ohio newspaper. It's really astounding how the MSM jumps to the defense of people like Soltan in spite of the evidence, intead turning on their critics.
I refer to Soltan as "the moderate's guest" owing to his appearances before such supposedly moderate groups like the Islamic Society of Boston, thus demonstrating an obvious irony and emptiness in such labels. Soltan appears even more frequently out in Columbus, of course, it's his home town. Poole writes of how he's been smeared in this article at FrontPage: Hometown Jihad: Blowback
When the article came out, I harbored no illusions that I would be offered the key to the city, have a public school named in my honor, or be invited to be grand marshal of the July 4th parade for the public service I had rendered to our community by exposing this immediate terrorist threat. Thus far, none of that has happened, nor do I expect such to be forthcoming.
What I couldn’t anticipate, however, was that Salah Sultan’s supporters in the Islamic and “interfaith community” here in the Columbus area would enlist the services of the local paper, the Columbus Dispatch, to airbrush Sultan’s record and defend the Islamic school he is associated with, while simultaneously launching an attack on FrontPage Magazine and myself, likening us to neo-Nazis, and accusing me of “inciting violence against the children of the school” and engaging in “hate speech”.
But that’s in fact what happened...
