Remember that iconic Situation Room photo during the bin Laden raid? Here in Brooklyn, the reality was somewhat different, as CNN explains:

(CNN) Faith has outweighed fact at Der Tzitung, a Hasidic newspaper based in Brooklyn, New York.The ultra-Orthodox Jewish publication ran a doctored copy of the iconic Situation Room Photo last Friday you know, the one taken of President Barack Obama and his national security team during the raid on Osama bin Ladens compound.Scrubbed from the picture: the two women in the room.Its as if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with her hand clasped over her mouth, and Audrey Tomason, director of counterterrorism, werent there and werent part of history.

Or maybe the raid never really happened at all. And bin Laden is alive. And Obama is NOT the same as Bush! Oh my.

David Gibson is the director of Fordham’s Center on Religion & Culture.

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