Time Magazine's Fond Farewell to a Terrorist

Why does the founder of Hezbollah deserve a fawning obituary in Time's review of the year?

Honest Reporting
Media Critiques
16 December '10

What is it about the late Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlalah that makes some media lose all sense of reality? It was the Hezbollah founder's death that prompted CNN's Octavia Nasr to Tweet her regrets and respect for the extremist - an action that with a bit of a push from HonestReporting cost Nasr her job.

Aside from his role as a founder of a vicious terrorist organization, Fadalah also supported suicide bombings and terror attacks inside Israel, engaged in Holocaust denial and, according to Reuters, at the hospital when a nurse asked the ailing cleric what he needed, he replied: "For the Zionist entity to cease to exist."

Yet, Time Magazine saw fit to honor Fadlalah with a fawning obituary in its "Fond Farewell" section of its People of the Year 2010.

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