A reader points out that there are two words you won’t find in CNN’s report on an honor killing in Atlanta: Muslim or Islam.

Instead, we get equivocating nonsense like this:

Ajay Nair, associate dean of multicultural affairs at Columbia University, said many immigrant families struggle over cultural and generational gaps, but that most South Asian communities enjoy “wonderful” relationships within their families.
“My immediate reaction was that this is an anomaly in the South Asian community,” Nair said Tuesday. “This isn’t a rampant problem within South Asian communities. What is a problem, I think, is domestic violence, and that cuts across all communities.”

He’s right, in a sense. You won’t hear very often about honor killings in South Asian communities of Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, or Buddhists. Might the undercurrent of radical ideology in the Muslim immigrant community be an issue worth addressing? And mightn’t we be a teensy bit concerned about Georgia girls being packed off to Pakistan for arranged marriages? Apparently, that’s not a story at CNN.