Associated Press Go-To Guy on Islam

Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs shows who the AP goes to as it's "expert" on things Islamic.

One of the most insidious and deceptive mainstream media practices is quoting radical Islamists (or radical leftists) as “experts” without providing any context to evaluate their statements.

Here’s a prime example in an Associated Press article by William J. Kole, promoting the nonsensical, ahistorical view that US/British “foreign policy” is somehow to blame for the global jihad: Plot Shows Rise of Extremism in Europe.

To advance this theory (which is really a thinly veiled threat), Kole opened his Rolodex and found an “expert” to opine on the matter—Azzam Timimi, one of the most hard-core Islamists currently operating in Britain. But you won’t find this out from Kole’s article.

Read the whole thing and then click on the link that shows the AP's "expert" ranting about "eradicating the cancer." You can guess who the "cancer" is. It's Israel. "It's a matter of time" until Israel is eradicated.

Well, Timini is an expert.