WaPo Changes al-Baghdadi Headline After Getting Ripped for Referring to Terror Leader as ‘Austere Religious Scholar’

There are many ways to describe a terror leader in a headline. But the Washington Post is getting ripped this morning for referring to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a headline as an “austere religious scholar.”

No, seriously:

And the Post is getting excoriated for it:





































The Post has since changed the headline to “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48.”