Good article, bad writing

Matthew Hoy
By Matthew Hoy on March 12, 2006

The New York Times has a profile of Dr. Wafa Sultan, the psychologist whose tongue-lashing of Islam I linked to last week. The article is pretty good, but in an effort to write a compelling lede, the Times gets its facts wrong.

Three weeks ago, Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living outside Los Angeles, nursing a deep anger and despair about her fellow Muslims.

Then, buried deep in the story we have this fact.

She said she no longer practiced Islam. "I am a secular human being," she said.

Well, then that would make that bit about "her fellow Muslims" inaccurate, wouldn't it? Other than that nit-pick the article is rather interesting. Sultan has, of course, received death threats and her family in the Middle East feels threatened -- you know, normal everyday stuff for the "religion of peace."

0 comments on “Good article, bad writing”

  1. I tend to think that if a conservative would have written that lede, he would be accused of stereotyping Arabs as automatically being Moslem.

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