Defending an Ideology at All Costs

A few bloggers (here, here, and here) are pointing to an article in the Washington Post today, "In One Night, Iraqi Turns From Friend to Foe," as further evidence of how desperate the MSM is to publish negative articles about Iraq. While I don't doubt this generalization, I don't see this article as falling into the category of an article concocted purely to fit an agenda (as others I've chronicled).According to the article:
Imaad said they were startled by a loud banging at the door. He went quickly to open it. When he did, Imaad said, there were about a dozen U.S. soldiers standing with their guns pointed at his head.
Imaad and his mother said the soldiers rushed in, ordering them to sit together while they searched the house. "You look poor," Imaad recalled one of the soldiers saying. "Why?"...The soldiers went to search his bedroom. He heard laughing, and then they called for him, he said. Imaad went to his room and saw that the soldiers had found several magazines he kept hidden from his mother. They had pictures of girls in swimsuits and erotic poses. Imaad said the soldiers spread the magazines on his bed and put his Koran in the middle.
"This is a good match," Imaad said one of the soldiers told him.
"It was a nightmare," he said. "I will never forget those bad soldiers when they put the Koran among the magazines."
While I don't claim to be a scholar on Islam, from my limited knowledge of the religion and in the context of the article, I assume that putting the Koran among porn magazines was extremely upsetting and offensive to the Iraqi man. This incident demonstrated a lack of cultural understanding on the part of the soldiers.
Hindocket, however, one of the aforelinked bloggers, says that the incident "suggests that the Americans must be the best-behaved occupation troops in history." Simon says the soldiers "did nothing (other than allegedly--no corroboration--juxtapose the porn with the Koran)." This might be "nothing" to some, but it may be something to a devout Muslim (apparently, it was).
As I said before, I agree that that the press has been overwhelmingly negative regarding Iraq. If there's any doubt left about this, I would point out a recent tally done by Arthur Chrenkoff about just how large the disparity is between negative and positive articles that are run; his findings are quite revealing. I think the bloggers missed the ball on this one, however.