{"id":2575122,"date":"2026-03-02T09:08:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austere-religious-scholar-redux-see-how-irans-murderous-khamenei-was-eulogized-by-wapo-nyt\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:11:59","slug":"austere-religious-scholar-redux-see-how-irans-murderous-khamenei-was-eulogized-by-wapo-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austere-religious-scholar-redux-see-how-irans-murderous-khamenei-was-eulogized-by-wapo-nyt\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Austere Religious Scholar&#8217; Redux: See How Iran&#8217;s Murderous Khamenei was Eulogized by WaPo, NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faustere-religious-scholar-redux-see-how-irans-murderous-khamenei-was-eulogized-by-wapo-nyt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2575122&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The piece argues that mainstream Western media often sanitizes or praises islamist leaders while harshly condemning Western critics, revealing a persistent bias in obituary and coverage practices.<\/p>\n<p>Key points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stop-thinking-of-disney-as-a-mickey-mouse-organization-two-ex-espn-employees-sue-claim-they-were-fired-for-refusing-vaccine\/\" title=\"\u2018Stop Thinking Of Disney As A Mickey Mouse Organization\u2019: Two Ex...ESPN Employees Sue, Claim They Were Fired For Refusing Vaccine\">author cites<\/a> the Washington Post\u2019s 2019 obituary of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which described him in unexpectedly sympathetic terms (\u201caustere religious scholar,\u201d \u201ccanny pragmatism\u201d), and notes the headline was altered after backlash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The piece contrasts this with coverage of Ayatollah ali Khamenei,noting the New York Times obituary described him as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-bidens-immigration-policies-may-fuel-migrant-caravan-crisis-at-southern-border\/\" title=\"Analysis: Biden\u2019s immigration policies may fuel migrant caravan crisis at southern border\">hard-line<\/a> yet capable leader who expanded Iran\u2019s regional power,while WaPo and others had at times gentler or avuncular framing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It argues that media inconsistencies extend to how figures like Rush limbaugh or Scott Adams are treated, suggesting media outlets reserve more invective for conservative or dissenting voices than for murderous regimes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The author highlights social media reactions that criticize media portrayals and question why harsh depictions of autocratic leaders aren\u2019t matched by the same tone used for controversial American figures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the piece concludes by wondering who media will eulogize next in friendly terms and mocks the idea that such leaders can be described in benign literary terms,urging more consistent condemnation of atrocities regardless of the figure\u2019s nationality or ideology.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not asking much from the legacy media. I don&rsquo;t expect that wokeness will die in darkness or that they&rsquo;ll learn a lesson from their own nonsense. All I&rsquo;m asking is that when a brutal Islamist murderer dies, they treat him like a brutal murderer. Or, barring that, they learn from the last time they praised a brutal Islamist murderer.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, they&rsquo;ve had six years and four months, almost to the day. On Oct. 27, 2019, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi &mdash; head of the Islamic State group for nine years &mdash; was killed in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>This was the infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wapo-glowingly-describes-dead-isis-leader-austere-religious-scholar-get-ripped-shreds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post obituary headline<\/a>, which was promptly altered:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WaPo&rsquo;s actual obit for a terrorist monster:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;austere religious scholar w<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >\/ wire-frame glasses&#038;rdquo<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mr. Baghdadi maintained a canny pragmatism&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Acquaintances would remember him as a shy, nearsighted youth who liked soccer but preferred to spend his free time at the local mosque&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XFFBnUsHEO\">pic.twitter.com\/XFFBnUsHEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realLizUSA\/status\/1188477530602377218?\">October 27, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); 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\t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>And then, on Feb. 28, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died in the first fusillade of American strikes against the Shi&rsquo;a theocratic regime. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/laundering-irans-atrocities-western-voices-became-shield-islamic-republics-mass-killings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Khamenei had recently slaughtered tens of thousands<\/a> of his people and cut off most internet access so the oppressed couldn&rsquo;t tell the world about it &mdash; and he was the head of a literal Islamic state, or what the group al-Baghdadi ran yearned to be.<\/p>\n<p>Surely they learned, right?<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The New York Times never fails to disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Old and busted: Austere Religious Scholar<\/p>\n<p>New hotness: Hard-Line Cleric <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/imV9PJRwrj\">pic.twitter.com\/imV9PJRwrj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/2027944547238531206?\">March 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Six years to avoid this and that&rsquo;s what you get: &ldquo;Hard-Line Cleric Who Made Iran a Regional Power.&rdquo; But was he austere, New York Times? Enquiring minds want to know.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, the Times&rsquo; Khamenei <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/28\/world\/middleeast\/ayatollah-ali-khamenei-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obit<\/a> was not terribly complimentary, describing him upfront as a man who &ldquo;turned the Islamic Republic into a regional power, brutally crushing dissent at home, and maintaining unswerving hostility to the United States and Israel.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>As the second leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khamenei cemented and expanded its hard-line Islamist and anti-Western policies, shaping the nation&rsquo;s Islamic revolution far more than its founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who held power for just a decade, most of it during a devastating war with Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At home, Ayatollah Khamenei ruled with an iron fist, blocking attempts at moderate reforms, labeling public demands for change as Western-orchestrated &ldquo;sedition&rdquo; and squelching dissent with arrests and executions. He vastly expanded a loyal military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, whose intelligence wing served as a powerful tool of repression.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Which, fair enough, but compare that headline with the ones the Times had for the obituaries of American figures guilty of nothing but wrongthink, like Rush Limbaugh or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/people-magazine-smears-scott-adams-disgraced-pro-trump-dilbert-creator-dies-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Adams<\/a> of &ldquo;Dilbert&rdquo; fame:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&rsquo;m merely asking NY Times to treat the passing of a known terrorist with the same invective as they gave Rush Limbaugh. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IXlS68BhcC\">pic.twitter.com\/IXlS68BhcC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrewHolden360\/status\/2028184890328383734?\">March 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You do not hate the New York Times enough <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4YmIRsBLl1\">pic.twitter.com\/4YmIRsBLl1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/2028142814387744825?\">March 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lovely. Neither Adams or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/remembering-rush-limbaugh-five-years-day-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Limbaugh<\/a>, mind you, was responsible for a single death. Just this year, Khamenei killed over 30,000 of his people to crack down on dissent. But sure, I can see why you might think he&rsquo;s every bit as bad as a Jew-hating psychopathic dictator who murders anyone who dares to defy the theocracy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/obituaries\/2026\/02\/28\/ayatollah-khamenei-dead-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a> &mdash; the originator of the &ldquo;austere religious scholar&rdquo; meme &mdash; things were actually worse when you got into the article proper, which was far more ambiguous about the . One paragraph in particular was beyond parody:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>  With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo&rsquo;s &ldquo;Les Mis&eacute;rables.&rdquo; But like the uncompromising Khomeini, he opposed moderates&rsquo; efforts to promote political and social reforms domestically and to secure rapprochement with the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, sure, the man turned his own state into a version of &ldquo;Les Mis&eacute;rables&rdquo; with hundreds of thousands of Inspector Javerts patrolling its own population and the world at large, but at least he came across like literary ol&rsquo; Uncle Santa Claus if he wasn&rsquo;t going to kill you and your family because your daughter had the temerity to step out without a headscarf. That&rsquo;s not hyperbolic sarcasm, that&rsquo;s <em>literally<\/em> the point that paragraph makes. These people wonder why they&rsquo;re being fired.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I can think of a lot of words to describe Khamenei, but &ldquo;avuncular&rdquo; is not one of them <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qwSQORJ7da\">https:\/\/t.co\/qwSQORJ7da<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Molly Hogan (@MiMiHogan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiMiHogan\/status\/2028106168908869983?\">March 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>More evidence that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnn-blames-trump-looming-mega-sale-staffers-freaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you do not hate the media enough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s early days in Iran. Who&rsquo;ll they eulogize in friendly terms next? Stay tuned for &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-iranian-hardliner-ties-revolutionary-guard-takes-step-towards-presidency\/\">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<\/a>, Avuncular Jacket-Wearer and Austere Political Scholar, Dead From Western Running-Dog Airstrikes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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The author says they don\u2019t expect journalism to suddenly embrace \u201cwokeness,\u201d but they do want outlets to treat brutal Islamist murderers the way they deserve to be treated\u2014as brutal killers. They point to past examples where coverage didn\u2019t do that, notably the way the Washington Post described Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after his death in 2019, portraying him in almost sympathetic terms as \u201can austere religious scholar\u201d and noting a \u201ccanny pragmatism,\u201d instead of focusing on the violence he was responsible for.<\/p>\n<p>The piece then turns to the death of Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in early 2026 and contrasts the New York Times\u2019 framing with how the paper has treated American figures like Rush Limbaugh or Scott Adams. The Times described Khamenei as a \u201chard-line cleric\u201d who made Iran a regional power and who brutally crushed dissent, a portrayal the author suggests is not as harsh as what they believe Limbaugh or Adams deserved. They argue that the Times\u2019 obituary for Khamenei was still insufficiently blunt about his repressive regime, and they challenge the media to apply the same level of invective to known tyrants as they do to dissidents, implying a double standard in obituary and profile writing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2575123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Michael-Featured-Image-748.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[21587,3823,36807,51059,7115],"class_list":["post-2575122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-eulogy","tag-iran","tag-khamenei","tag-nytimes","tag-wapo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Michael-Featured-Image-748.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575127,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575122\/revisions\/2575127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2575123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}