[1] Shoebat told him. He wouldn't believe it. Anani told him. He couldn't believe it.

Sean Hannity had former jihadist [2] Zachariah Anani on Hannity and Colmes the other night to talk about the [3] shameful events at Columbia University, and Hannity passed up another in a long series of opportunities to use his bully pulpit actually to educate Americans about the threat we face and what we can do about it.

HANNITY: Yes. You admit, you say you were trained to fight, kill Jews, to hate Christians and hate Americans. You say every time I killed someone and two or three fighters witnessed it, they would give me a point on my chart. You killed 223 people.

ANANI: That's what my chart says, yes.

HANNITY: Is that what you think, you killed 223 people? You believe you did?

ANANI: Yes. That's equivalent of fights I went on in 40 years of my life on the streets of Beirut.

HANNITY: So now you've changed your mindset. You feel like you were indoctrinated into this ideology of hate. We keep using the term Islamic fascist, and people don't like that term, but there is the use of religion to justify killing and hatred. You're saying you were a part of that.

ANANI: Yes, it's true. Because what you have brought up on teachings is exactly what is obstructed [sic; Anani almost certainly said "instructed"] from the Koran itself, where it teaches you to hate and kill the others who are not Muslims.

Now here Anani has given Hannity a chance to address the foremost problem of our age: the spread of the jihad ideology that fuels Islamic terrorism and the Islamic supremacism that fuels unrest between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe and elsewhere.

Here are some options for what Hannity could have said at this point. Which one do you think he chose?

A. "The Qur'an says that? Really? But moderate Muslims have assured us that the Qur'an teaches peace. What do you say to that?"
B. "How extensive is the dissemination of such teachings? How many Muslim children around the world do you think are being taught such things today?"
C. "Now wait a minute, Zack. Didn't non-Muslims live at peace with Muslims in the Islamic world for centuries? How could they have done that if the Qur'an teaches Muslims to hate and kill those who are non-Muslims?"
D. "What can non-Muslims and Muslims alike do now to help eradicate this ideology of hate and end its influence in the world forever?"

Any one of those would have given Anani a chance to clarify his remarks, make further distinctions, and inform the public about the nature of the jihad ideology and the goals of the jihadist movement.

But Hannity said none of those things. Instead, this is his response to Anani's statement:

HANNITY: Hilmar Von Campe, let's talk about your background, your life. You were brought up in the Hitler Youth area.

That's right. Hannity punted. And meanwhile, mainstream media cluelessness and fear continues apace, while most of the public remains in the dark about what is really happening.