[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
The Daily Beast's Dean Obeidallah denied the existence of Islamism as an ideology during a segment on the 11 May 2015 edition of CNN Newsroom. Obeidallah, responding to conservative commentator Erick Erickson applauding Saturday Night Live's draw Mohammed skit as "a perfectly humorous way to point out the absurdity of radical Islam's refusal to let people draw Mohammed," wildly claimed that "the [SNL] writers'...goal was not to make fun of radical Islam – this made-up idea."