We have to show “respect” for mass murderers, you see — if they’re Muslims.

“Harris-Perry: New York Times Wrong to Show Malik in Hijab Because It Suggests ‘This is What Terrorism Looks Like,’” by David Rutz, Washington Free Beacon, December 7, 2015:

The New York Times, despite a front-page editorial advocating for gun control, still failed to live up to the left-wing sensibilities of MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry Saturday because it had a picture of San Bernardino shooter and devout Muslim Tafsheen Malik wearing her hijab. Now, Harris-Perry complained in the clip first flagged by NewsBusters, the newspaper was problematic for suggesting “this is what terrorism looks like.” Malik pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist organization the same day she and husband Syed Farook killed 14 people. The New York Timesreported Malik was “visibly devout” with her use of the hijab and face-covering niqab. It is unclear how any other picture of Malik could have been circulated. As NewsBusters suggested, was the newspaper expected to photoshop the hijab off her? Arab-American activist Linda Sarsour claimed Saturday on Harris-Perry’s eponymous show that the media’s rhetoric about the massacre shifted when it turned out the perpetrators were Islamic. “All of a sudden we find out they’re Muslim. Bam, gun violence is out of the question,” she said. “We start talking about terrorism. And I’m extremely disturbed. I mean, I looked at the New York Times cover today. There, you have a whole op-ed on gun control. Great. Right next to it is pictures from the apartment of things that I have in my house.” “Yes!” Harris-Perry said. “These are things that all Muslims have in their house,” Sarsour said. “There’s nothing about that that tells you a story about what terrorism looks like. So you’re telling me that when my friends who are not Muslim come into my home and see a Koran on see frames on the wall with a scripture from my religion, is that supposed to tell you something?…”

Uh, yeah.

“Photo of San Bernardino shooter without burqa causes controversy,” by Susana Guerrero, SFGate.com, December 6, 2015:

Al-Jazeera producer Hashem Said is being criticized after tweeting that ABC News should have respected San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik by not sharing photos of her without a burqa, the Gateway Pundit writes. One individual responded to Said’s comment by posting a picture of Malik after she was shot and killed by law enforcers. Malik is shown lying on her back on pavement as one arm covers her face. The individual who posted the photo wrote “Here is a picture of her without her face.” Said has since retracted the tweet and apologized for his remark on Twitter. He also issued several tweets clarifying that he didn’t mean to offend anyone by his comment, and he explained that what he meant to say is that the image ABC used could be offensive to Malik’s family. ABC News was the first to reveal an image of Malik. Malik typically donned a burka but the image they used reveals her face….

AFDI’s Geller Fellow Nonie Darwish explains all this: “The Sad Reasons for the Delay in Publishing Photos of Tashfeen Malik,” by Nonie Darwish, PamelaGeller.com, December 6, 2015: