Another prestigious prize (this time the Pulitzer),  another disgrace ( sloppy reporting to advance a political agenda). According to Jonathan Tobin, writing in Jewish World Review, Andrea Elliot of the New York Times left quite a few important matters out of her Pulitzer Prize-winning 11,000 three part story on "An Imam in America," featuring Sheik Reda Shata of the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, N.Y. The series, which first appeared on March 5-7, 2006, is touted on the newspaper's Web site as the story of "the inner life of a mosque in Brooklyn, and the dynamic, creative, conflicted and fearful imam at its center: Sheik Reda Shata. Through study and conversation, persuasion and persistence, Elliott achieved an intimate, tough-minded exploration of the lives of immigrant Muslims after 9/11." Aha!  Those terrified Moslems, living peacefully in America, scorned and discriminated against, merely because some 22 of their co-religionists...(Read Full Post)