The Washington Post is facing heat after publishing an op-ed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, with many noting Erdogan’s history of jailing journalists in his own country.
In the piece, Erdogan argued that the world should see no difference between the attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, that left 50 dead and the radical islamic terrorism of ISIS.
“As a leader who has repeatedly stressed that terrorism has no religion, language or race, I categorically reject any attempt to associate last week’s terrorist attacks with the teachings, morals or maxims of Christianity. If anything, what happened in New Zealand was the toxic product of ignorance and hate,” Erdogan wrote.