They would have used a photo of her in an NRA cap, but none was available . . . Man, it's getting hard to navigate the nuanced shoals of political correctness. Now, even the ineffably sensitive New York Times has run afoul of the rules, as propounded by Melissa Harris-Perry. On her MSNBC show today, Harris-Perry griped that the Gray Lady had run a photo of Islamic terrorist killer Tafsheen Malik wearing a hijab. As per H-P, the Times was sending a message that "this is what terrorism looks like."

Damn those anti-Muslim bigots of the New York Times! But seriously, what was the poor paper supposed to do? Should the Times have photoshopped the hijab off Malik? Harris-Perry might have complained the paper was suggesting there was something offensive about the garment. Sometimes you just can't win with the PC police.

Before Harris-Perry's complaint, panelist Linda Sarsour of the Arab American Association of New York said she was "extremely disturbed" and found it "absolutely outrageous" that the Times had run front page photos of the interior of the apartment of the San Bernardino terrorist couple which showed typical Islamic furnishings and decorations. As Harris-Perry subsequently said about the hijab, Sarsour suggested that the Times was sending a message that "this is what terrorism looks like."

Note: before kvetching about the Times, Sarsour said something that I would invite readers to interpret. "We went from immediately knowing from eyewitnesses that they were three white males. Which by the way multiple witnesses--three medium-built, heavy-built white males--and let's not even go there." Where would "there" have been in Sarsour's mind?