Reporting on Islamists can tacitly endorse state torture in interrogation.

Evidence

In one scene related in the book, she actually participates in the prison interrogation of an alleged Muslim terrorist by Israeli policemen, whose systematic use of torture and other questionable procedures (undercover assassinations, middle-of-the-night arrests, house demolitions) she politely overlooks as she gets to ask the handcuffed man a few questions of her own. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 55

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the journalist as accessory — how civilian reporters normalize state violence by participating in it.