Of course, it gets worse. The New York Daily News reports that actress Maggie Gyllenhaal credits "Wonderful" with dealing "with 9/11 in such a subtle, open way that I think it allows it to be more complicated than just, 'Oh, look at these poor New Yorkers and how hard it was for them.'" She continues: "I think America has done reprehensible things and is responsible in some way and so I think the delicacy ... allows that to sort of creep in." Creep is right. Good thing "delicacy" is never, ever "didactic" or "encumbered by politics."

Then there's "24." This is the Fox television series semi-notorious for having performed public penance -- in the form of a PSA featuring star and co-producer Keifer Sutherland -- because it dared to depict minimally identifiable Muslim characters carrying out terrorist activities against American civilians. Early on, the show even featured an exchange of "Allahu Akbar" between two terrorists -- mumbled, yes, but a first -- just as though the First Amendment applied to TV writers setting a story in the era of Islamic terrorism.

But following a no doubt friendly visit from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), lo and behold, the Fox show found what you might call "delicacy." Suddenly, the program's circumspectly Islamic gang included a full complement of white ex-military men, all with the inexplicable urge to shoot down Air Force One. In a recent episode, Marwan, the Muslim terror kingpin the show was originally "encumbered" with, videotaped a statement explaining why he was shooting a nuclear warhead at an American city. He did so standing before a flag covered in Arabic writing -- daring for these politically correct times -- but without once mentioning Allah, infidels, Islam or paradise. In other words, after all these years of Koranic communiques from assorted Islamic terror networks, Marwan's big moment fell p.c.-flat. This doesn't mean, though, that "24" isn't the topically bravest show around.

 Still, what were the producers afraid of? When networks, movies and television deny the facts of jihad terror, they whitewash killers. Why?