The New York Times's Bone Headed Theory of Relativity

In a review of the Showtime documentary American Jihad, an NYT scribbler claims there have been "relatively few instances of jihad-inspired terrorism in the United States." The comment doesn't sit well (to say the least) with The Algemeiner's Ira Stoll:

“Relatively few”? 

The phrase stopped me in my tracks. 

The 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The 1994 murder of Ari Halberstam on the Brooklyn Bridge. The 2001 World Trade Center bombing. The 2009 Fort Hood shooting. The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The 2015 San Bernardino attack. The 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting. 

How many people have to die before the Times stops describing these attacks as “relatively few”? There might be even more such attacks except that the government, over the objections of the Times, has taken certain steps to try to prevent them. 

“Relatively few” is Times code for “not a problem that you should worry much about.” It’s not language you’ll often see in Times coverage of, say, school shootings, or Trump-era anti-Semitism and xenophobic violence.

That's because to "progressives" who write for and read the Times, Islam is okey-dokey, all of it, jihad is a modern invention that "perverts" peaceful Islamic teachings, and only "right-wing" ideology is worrisome.