The New York Times has been criticized for minimizing the threat that militant Islam poses to the world. Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City has noted this Orwellian erasing of facts involving Muslims fighting Christians by the Times . He noted also that the New York Times omitted an epithet against Christians ("Oh you Christian dog") when reporting on the curse that an Islamic murderer made before he beheaded the American hostage Eugene Armstrong.  

Today, the Times does it again reporting on the Ivory Coast civil strife, when stating that the violence is primarily a "turf war" over lands growing cocoa. Totally ignored is the fact that the battle being waged between Northerners and Southerners is also one based on religious divisions—the Northerners are Islamic, the Southerners are Christian. Not one mention of this in the lengthy article, found here.

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