The breathless reporting on the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi from mainstream (read: liberal) American news outlets has always seemed a bit odd. Their was a near-concerted attempt to collectively frame a narrative that suggested Khashoggi was more Westernized than Saudi Arabian, and more involved with The Washington Post than serving as a sometime contributor filing stories from the Middle East. CNN even went so far to publish a piece entitled, “Jamal Khashoggi Was A Journalist, Not A Jihadist.”
Sure, he had joined the brutal Islamist group The Muslim Brotherhood as a young man, and had followed and written admiringly about Osama bin Laden; but he had since embraced the Enlightenment and recognized the brilliance of the American ideal of the separation of church and state, they wrote. -- More....
