Washington Post Headline Describes Dead ISIS Leader Targeted by Trump as ‘Austere Religious Scholar

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that during a U.S. military raid in northern Syria, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up before American troops could get to him. It was a significant victory over one of the world’s worst terrorist groups.

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‘Austere religious scholar’

The Washington Post’s original coverage of this event read, “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State’s ‘terrorist-in-chief,’ dies at 48,”  makes it sound like he could have died due to disease or sickness, downplaying the important fact that this top terrorist died because he found himself in U.S. troops crosshairs.

But apparently even this headline was too harsh, as WaPo eventually changed their headline to,  “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.”

Journalist Yashar Ali took a screenshot and posted it on Twitter.

Can You Imagine if WaPo Did This with Osama Bin Laden?

Can you imagine the Washington Post describing Osama bin Laden was an “austere religious scholar?”

Compare how the Washington Post treats a top terrorist death under Trump’s watch to the headline the paper chose when President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. had killed Osama Bin Laden. That headline read, “Osama bin Laden killed: Leader of terrorist group al-Qaeda was 54.”

But since this was a Trump success, the liberal paper can’t even bring itself to call the head of ISIS a “terrorist,” with that word removed from the original headline.

The Post’s headline on the al-Baghdadi obituary appears to have been changed yet again since Ali posted screenshots, as it now reads: “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48.”

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The paper eventually reverted back to its original headline.  The story in many ways is just as bad as the “austere” headline.  al-Baghdadi is described as an “austere religious scholar with wire-frame classes” and notes that he “maintained a canny pragmatism.”

“Acquaintances would remember him as a shy, nearsighted youth who liked soccer but preferred to spend his free time at the local mosque,” the Post framed his death. Republican National Committee spokeswoman Elizabeth Harrington tweeted out this passage:

Republican consultant Elliott Schwartz noted that the story “waits until the 34th [paragraph] to inform readers he was a serial rapist of hostage sex slaves.”

Trump Says It Straight

Trump sent out a curious tweet after the incident, saying simply: “Something very big has just happened!” On Sunday morning, Trump told the nation of al-Baghdadi’s death.

Unlike the Washington Post’s light or even favorable treatment of the dead terrorist, President Trump called him a “coward” and a “dog,” also saying, “Last night, the United States brought the world’s number one terrorist leader, to justice: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead,”

“Last night was a great night for the U.S. and the world,” Trump added. “A brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, has violently been eliminated.”

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“He will never again harm an innocent man, woman or child,” Trump said. “He died like a coward … The thug who tried so hard to intimidate others spent his last moments in utter fear, in total panic and dread, terrified of the American forces bearing down on him.”

Now, was that so hard? Thank you President Trump for being forthright about this evil man being purged from this earth thanks to the U.S.

The Washington Post apparently doesn’t even understand what country they are serving.