Why were 'experts' so quick to conclude the attacks were in the name of Islam? Hitchens opines...

RAPID CONCLUSIONS: Christopher Hitchens questions why 'experts' were so quick to conclude that the Norway attacks were perpetrated by an Islamic extremist. He writes that the naive vapidity culminates in "the wretched spectacle of the jihadist websites in Oslo, which had been getting ready with their original posts of joy when they, too, thought that their own holy cause might be involved—and then ceasing and desisting when it became clear that the perpetrator was some loser who had quite different reasons for wanting to slaughter a crowd of young people that day." Adding: "Headline writers and newscasters should have waited before making any pronouncements, and thereby committing the indecency of suggesting that the killers were being selective, even choosy." Agreed.

ON COVERAGE: Ron Radosh is (needlessly) upset over a New York Times story on the event, which he unequivocally describes as a "not-so veiled editorial." Build a bridge.