WND appears to have brought back its “WND Staff” byline — those articles are still anonymously written, but now there’s an official anonymous byline for them. It doesn’t stop WND’s record of fake news, of course. A July 25 “WND Staff” article states:
A clip from an Al Jazeera television interview last year has been unearthed showing Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., claiming America should be afraid of “white men” rather than Islamic jihadis.
Because, after all, it’s white men who are causing most of “the deaths,” said the Muslim freshman congresswoman.
Al Jazeera asked her about fear of Muslim terror attacks such as those at Fort Hood and San Bernardino.
“I would say, uh, uh, our country should be more fearful, um, of, of, white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country,” Omar said. “We should be profiling, monitoring, um, and, uh, and, and, creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men.”
But as an actual news outlet documented, the video WND based its attack article on was dishonestly edited, removing Omar’s statement qualifying her statement about being fearful of white men, saying that it applied “if fear was the driving force of policies to keep America safe, Americans safe inside of this country.”
The anonymous WND article went on to attack Omar over the essentially accurate statement that white men do commit more terrorist attacks in the U.S. than Muslim extremists (since 9/11, anyway), citing anti-Muslim activist Robert Spencer to spin that the tally “ignored the many, many foiled jihad plots, and the fact that jihadis are part of an international movement that has killed many thousands of people, while right-wingers and white supremacists are not,” and that some deaths attributed to white nationalists “were perpetrated by people who were obviously deranged psychopaths devoid of any ideology.”