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Tag Archives: Islamophobia
The Other US Homegrown Radicalization
In a scene reminiscent of the “Goodbye Jews” scene out of Schindler’s List, a confrontational crowd of angry people in Orange County, California dished out hateful remarks at Muslim families as they calmly entered a charity function to help women’s shelters, homelessness, and hunger. Continue reading
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The Denial of Islamophobia
As such Islamophobia is just another form of bigotry – in this case, bigotry against Muslims. And like other forms of bigotry, it requires this defining ingredient for it to be bigotry: negative stereotyping or generalizing about a large group of people. Continue reading
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FOX News Rewards Juan Williams with $2 Million
In the immediate wake of his anti-Muslim comments that saw him fired by NPR, Williams has been offered a $2 million contract with FOX News, leaving no question as to where the network lies when it comes to prejudicial language against Muslims. Continue reading
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NPR Fires Juan Williams Over Anti-Muslim Comments
NPR finally realized that Juan Williams, who moonlights as a FOX News paid polemicist, is an embarrassment to the objective professional journalism NPR aspires to. I think their decision to fire him was justified in that Juan’s comments on the O’Reilly Factor amounted to little more than pure bigotry anyway you look at it. Continue reading
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Joy and Whoopi Walk Out On Bill O’Reilly
Bill gets it completely wrong on The View. He runs the usual line that “Muslims killed us on 9/11″ therefore Muslims cannot build a mosque near Ground Zero. In fact, Muslims did not kill us on 9/11. I didn’t kill us on 9/11. My mom didn’t kill us. My nephew didn’t kill us. Continue reading
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Let’s Face it: It’s the Radical Right, not Islam, that is the Greatest Threat to the American Way
Imagine if a major American advertiser were to pull its ads off of Jersey Shore because they received objections that the show while portraying a group of Italian-Americans, made the glaring error of excluding Mafiosi. Imagine if the absence of characters “whacking knee caps” and “making offers you cannot refuse” was deemed as an “omission” and therefore pro-Italian propaganda, and as a result too controversial to sponsor.
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