Gazette Bigots

Before this weekend I thought the ridiculously conservative content of the Colorado Springs Gazette would not surprise me again, but then I decided to read the op-ed section of Saturday's paper.

In one of the letters to the editor, a reader decided to close his ignorant letter with the following:

They have (speaking of Israel) the manpower, the military might and the hatred to do it, and no one is going to come to the aid of the poor Muslim terrorist savages.

read the full letter here.

I'm not going to blast this guy for using stupid terminology. People who see the world as black and white, good and evil, are out there and probably won't be changed. People like this piss me off, but they're there and they aren't my target right now.

What pisses me off is the Gazette's decision to publish a letter.

Every time the Gazette publishes letters, it includes a disclaimer saying: "The Gazette reserves the right to edit submissions for length, taste and clarity." The Gazette should have exercised this right and refused to publish the phrase "poor Muslim terrorist savages" from its paper and its website.

As and independent newspaper, the Gazette has the right to do whatever it wants, but it is irresponsible for a large newspaper like the Gazette to publish ignorant opinions that are uninformed and only serve to reinforce stereotypes against the world's billion Muslims and black and white "America versus the world" foreign policy paradigms. The Gazette is only propogating hate to a reading audience that already has too many anti-Islam, America can-do-no-wrong opinions.