“Guess the religion,” popularized by Debbie Schlussel on her website, occurs when the news media—following the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—doesn’t identify the religion of suspected terrorists. The media, perhaps fearing charges of Islamophobia, is reluctant to identify terror suspects as Muslim, often disregarding the facts and circumstances of a news story.
   
“Guess the religion” has been cited in print since at least 2006.  “Name that party” is a similar liberal news bias that omits the “Democrat” identification from politically damaging stories.
   
       
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From: Jeremy Martin

Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 04:30:54 -0000
Local: Tues, Jun 18 2002 10:30 pm
Subject: My New Gameshow: Guess the Religion!
       
Well, “Guess the Religion” because apparently I’m not very bright and can’t remember which group does this.
 
There’s a group where the females are always wearing skirts to the ankles, always preferring jean-type material. Think these are Mormons, or some other crazy cult/sect/circle-jerk I’m not remembering?
       
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Foulsmeller
07-29-2006, 12:29 AM
Guess the religion of the suspect….
http://sherdognet.craveonline.com/index.php#http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/28/seattle.shooting/index.html
(CNN)—One person was killed and five others were wounded, three critically, in a shooting at the Jewish Federation in downtown Seattle, Washington, police said.
 
Police have detained a suspect who is of Pakistani descent, said a law enforcement official.
     
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Terror plot in Chicago/ guess the religion of the arrestee
bringbckclinton
12-08-2006, 01:22 PM
‘Lone Wolf’ Charged with Plotting Attack During Christmas Rush
Feds Arrest Would-Be Terrorist Allegedly Planning To Set Off Grenades in Rockford Mall
By PIERRE THOMAS and JASON RYAN
Dec. 8, 2006 — - ABC News has learned a Chicago-area man has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack at a Rockford mall during the holiday shopping season.
 
Derrick Shareef, of Rockford, Ill was arrested Wednesday by the Joint Terrorism Task Force when he met an undercover agent to trade hand grenades and a 9-millimeter handgun for a set of stereo speakers.
 
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Specop 007
02-14-2007, 03:54 PM
So, guess the religion of the Utah shooter….
THATS RIGHT! Another upstanding citizen from the Religion of Peace!
 
Debbie Schlussel
June 29, 2007, - 10:21 am
New London Terror Foiled: Reaping What They’ve Sown in Britain; Guess the Religion
By Debbie Schlussel
Time for another edition of “Guess the Religion.”
A homicide car bomb attack foiled in London’s Picadilly Circus, today.
“International elements are involved.” Hmmm . . . what does “international elements” mean? Nice, creative new euphemism for a certain religion that has international elements and a huge presence in London and the rest of Britain. But, gee, who could it be?
   
The Jawa Report
April 09, 2010
Guess the Religion
of the people who did this to these ladies.
Hint it weren’t the Mennonites.
 
Debbie Schlussel
May 9, 2011, - 12:53 pm
Guess the Religion: Whole New Batch of Muslim Dry Runs on Planes
By Debbie Schlussel
See, this is what I meant when I said the killing of Osama Bin Laden won’t make a dime’s worth of difference in the Islamic threat to America . . . from within.
 
Debbie Schlussel
May 23, 2011, - 3:39 pm
Sharif Ahmed Nour – Guess the Religion: Somali Cabbie w/ “Bomb Components” in Apartment
By Debbie Schlussel
Clearly, the FBI must have found something very serious and scary in the Irving, Texas apartment of Sharif Ahmed Nour because they were going to charge him with possessing “bomb-making components” and the media is already preparing his defense for him, saying he “may have been mentally disturbed.”
 
Debbie Schlussel 
January 9, 2012, - 2:10 pm
Sami Osmakac, US Terrorist of the Day – Guess the Religion
By Debbie Schlussel
Hey, another attempted terrorist attack on U.S. soil.  This time, the guy is from the “former Yugoslavia” a/k/a Kosovo.  And, as reader Mikhail sarcastically states, “I assume this guy is Yugoslavian Amish.”  I told him, no, the guy’s gotta be Yugoslavian Wiccan.