MSNBC’s Diaz-Balart Ignores Oklahoma Beheading Suspect’s Islamic Faith

The MSNBC reporter offered many facts about the case, but conspicuously ignored one

MSNBC’s Diaz-Balart Ignores Oklahoma Beheading Suspect's Islamic Faith (NewsBusters)

\Last week, an Oklahoma man beheaded a former coworker after losing his job, but NBC, and its sister channel MSNBC, have ignored the role that his conversion to Islam may have played in the brutal murder.  

After NBC failed to acknowledge Alton Nolen’s Muslim faith during its sole report on Friday night, a Monday morning news brief on the murder by MSNBC’s Jose Diaz-Balart also ignored the murderer’s recent conversion to Islam. 

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