In support of your post Richie consider this information from William McGurn in WSJ 3/13/12.

"Bill Maher tweeting his disapproval of the "fatwa" agains Rush Limbaugh" Of course it had nothing to do with the fact that Maher has long called conservative women things far more vulgar...but he has continually gotten a pass from the media.

Apparently a foreigner, surveying our mainstream media was surprised to find out how frequently Isalamic terminology is used


To wit: Washington Post Richard Cohen opened a February column about GOP candidate Rick Santorum this way: "Mullah Rick has spoken." Cohen described Mr. Santorum political forum as a "fatwa" and fretted that the Republican's divisive approach calls to mind history's warning about "how the public square gets used for beheadings and the like" when religion "takes too prominent a role

To wit: On "Morning Joe", NY Times Bill Keller worried that Rick Santorum might be "creeping up on a kind of Christian version of Shariah Law."

To wit: NY Times Joe Nocera suggest that America has been horrified to watch the "jihad" that tea party Republicans were waging on the country and urged them to "put aside their suicide vests."

To wit: Chris Matthews, Hardball, likened Republicans negotiating the debt ceiling with the president to the "Wahhabis of American government.................