In a June 8 WorldNetDaily article, Bob Unruh touted “survey compiled by Mordechai Kedar and David Yerushalmi and published by the Middle East Quarterly” claiming that “Dozens of mosques around the United States have been identified in a new study as incubators for jihad against America, with more than 80 percent of those surveyed advocating violence.”
What Unruh didn’t tell you: One of the authors of the study has a history of anti-Muslim bigotry.
As Media Matters details, Yerushalmi, has been cited by the Anti-Defamation League for his “record of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-black bigotry,” and he has even defended the anti-Semitism of Mel Gibson and Pat Buchanan. The organization Yerushalmi founded, Society of Americans for National Existence, has proposed legislation that furthering or supporting adherence to Shari’a “shall be a felony punishable by 20 years in prison.”
Meanwhile, Richard Bartholomew notes that Yerushalmi — who has served as an attorney for rabidly anti-Muslim writer (and newly minted WND columnist) Pamela Geller — uses questionable methodology in his survey, calling his approach “of very limited value and is probably even misleading.”Bartholomew also notes that the journal that published this study, Middle East Quarterly, has a history of rejecting peer review of its articles because it claims most specialists were not interested in “American interests” or were hostile to the USA.
Not only does Unruh not mention any of this, he does not permit any contradictory views of the study. So much for journalism.