It was a sensational story almost made for TV -- any parent’s worst fear, murder, international terror, dramatic video. So on Monday, NBC’s Today covered an energy drink ban controversy. CBS did a detailed story on a defunct company’s cheese scandal. And all three network’s morning “news” broadcasts provided copious post-Oscars coverage.
The story they all ignored was that of a woman in Moscow wearing a hijab who walked around for an hour carrying the severed head of a four-year-old child who had been in her care, according to security footage shown on Russia's REN-TV channel.
The 38-year-old woman from Central Asia threatened to blow herself up in front of a crowded city metro station and shouted “Allahu Akbar” along with, “I'm a terrorist!” and “I hate democracy. I want your death!” before she was apprehended by police.
Authorities called the woman, who is is facing murder charges and undergoing a psychiatric examination, “clearly insane,” and possibly under heavy narcotics. Nevertheless, the networks avoided her Islamist rantings.
The Muslim immigrant woman, Gyulchekhra Bobokulova from Uzbekistan had a valid residency permit but was working illegally in Moscow. She was mentally unstable but also seemed to be influenced by radical Islam.
She took up residence and work in Russia and was not noticed by authorities until too late. Given how the left has been pushing for the United States to take in more Syrian refugees, and the liberal media follows the Obama administration’s lead in its reluctance to connect Islam to terror, the network silence isn’t surprising.
2015 showed us act after act of radical terrorism by Islam, but the networks have been quiet on the link between terror and Islam.
