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"Muslims Killed us on 9/11!" Fox News's Bill O'Reilly made this hateful statement on ABC's The View last week. This sparked instant criticism by The View co-hosts to the point where Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked off the show as a statement of protest -- just as US officials walk out of the UN when Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spews anti-Semitic comments.
On Friday, Fox News anchor and radio host Brian Kilmeade continued the campaign of demonizing Muslims by making the ridiculous and factually inaccurate comment: "All terrorists are Muslims." (Obviously, he is unaware of Timothy McVeigh, The Unabomber, numerous serial killers, and people attacking abortion doctors and clinics.)
What were the consequences for these two after making these hate filled comments? Were they suspended or fired by their employers? Did they suffer a backlash in the media? Did advertisers drop their shows? Nope. Nothing happened to them.
Yet, just a few weeks ago when former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez made an anti-Semitic comment, he was fired the next day. Yes, the next day! When Don Imus made his infamous racist comments about the Rutgers basketball team in 2007, advertisers immediately responded by dropping the show and ultimately Don Imus was fired.
But what happens when you make comments against Muslims or Arabs in America that incite hatred? You get more ratings. You sell more books. You are defended by people who say that you are brave and courageous for standing up to political correctness.
Dean Obeidallah: The Muslim Double Standard
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Instead, at this point, demonizing Muslims in the US has become a boutique industry. In a recession when jobs are scarce, there is one place that will guarantee you money: Demonize Muslims. Write a book, start a website, increase your ratings, raise more money for political campaign -- all you have to do is attack Muslims. I imagine in the future, "Demonizing Muslims" will be offered as a major in college. I can see college students saying: "I'm going to major in English literature, but to make sure I have a fall back to pay my bills, I'm going to minor in "Demonizing Muslims."
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#1 - Tue Oct 26, 2010 8:36 AM EDTMuslims just filled the void left by Russia as the bad guys.
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#2 - Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:02 AM EDTYeah, but whereas The USSR presented a real threat, these people don't. They're being vilified for the acts of an infinitesimally small percentage of their population.
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that too. It is rather surprising that governments haven't developed a means of countering non-state insurgencies. I understand the issue is rather complex, but it is just odd that guerrilla warfare always trumps large militaries.
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Americans love to hate, I like how we preach about freedom while we watch a 24 hour anti Muslim, pro-corporate, borderline fascist propaganda network with very high ratings.
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#3 - Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:17 PM EDTI love America and all it stands for. Moderate muslims should defend their religion against extremist IF in fact the terrorists are fringe rather than mainstream.
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