There are many ways to describe a terror leader in a headline. But the Washington Post referred to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a headline as an “austere religious scholar.”
The Post has since changed the headline to “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48.”
The original obituary had that “austere religious scholar” language in the first paragraph and proceeded to tell his story within that framework:
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, an austere religious scholar with wire-frame glasses and no known aptitude for fighting and killing….
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