Sean Hannity blasts Washington Post as being ‘sick and repulsive’ for calling ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi an ‘austere religious scholar’ in obituary headline
- Sean Hannity took to Twitter to lambaste the Washington Post headline
- Hannity said it was ‘sick and repulsive’ to call ISIS mastermind Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi an ‘austere religious scholar’
- Hannity’s headline suggestion was: ‘How about we killed the evil SOB’
Sean Hannity slammed the Washington Post after the newspaper called ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi an ‘austere religious scholar’ in the headline of his obituary Sunday morning.
Hannity fired off a series of tweets blasting the newspaper for giving the ISIS mastermind’s obituary the headline: ‘Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.’
In the tweets, Hannity called the headline ‘sick and repulsive’ and repeatedly included a screengrab of the original headline, which the newspaper has since modified to read: ‘Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48.’
Sean Hannity (on October 26) took to Twitter Sunday with a complaint about the Washington Post’s original headline for its Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi obituary
Hannity series of tweets included a screengrab of the original headline, which has since been changed, a suggestion for an alternate headline and some facts about ISIS activities
Hannity shared this screengrab of the original headline on al-Baghdadi’s obituary
‘An “austere religious scholar”? “Dead at 48”? No—he was cornered by the greatest toughest best military heroes on earth!! How about we killed the evil SOB,’ Hannity tweeted.
‘This is exactly why America will never trust these mainstream corrupt fake news outlets ever again.’
Hannity went on to tweet, ‘Let me educate the Washington Post. Al-Baghdadi was the leader of ISIS… The terror organization that is responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people. ISIS terrorists take pleasure in beheadings and burning people alive in cages. They use cars and trucks to mow down innocent people. To describe Al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar” is sick and repulsive.’
President Trump announced Sunday morning that al-Baghdadi ‘died like a dog’ as the result of an overnight U.S. Special Ops forces raid on his hideout in northwest Syria.
Hannity sent out three tweets in total about the Washington Post headline Sunday
The Washington Post called al-Baghdadid a ‘terrorist-in-chief’ when it tweeted out the obituary
The Washington Post revised the obituary headline, claiming they ‘changed it quickly’
Trump said that al-Baghdadi killed himself and three children when he detonated his suicide vest after being cornered in a dead-end tunnel.
The headline that offended Hannity appears to have been based on the line from the obituary stating that ‘When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took the reins of the Islamic State of Iraq in 2010, few had heard of the organization or its new leader, then an austere religious scholar with wire-frame glasses and no known aptitude for fighting and killing.’
The obituary also went on to note that al-Baghdadi ‘spent his early adult years as an obscure academic, aiming for a quiet life as a professor of Islamic law.’
A Washington Post spokesperson told Fox News that ‘Regarding our al-Baghdadi obituary, the headline should never have read that way and we changed it quickly.’
When the newspaper tweeted out the obituary, the tweet called al-Baghdadi ‘Islamic State’s “terrorist-in-chief.”‘