These are two of the controversial comments in question, according to The New York Times:. And this, in reference to Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani immigrant who attempted to blow up Times Square with a car bomb:.
The first quotation reflects the views, I'm guessing, of the vast majority of people who fly in this country and in Europe and Asia and other parts of the world, as well. With some regularity, Muslim men associated with radical Islamist organizations have been trying to kill American civilians, here and abroad.
A group of 19 Muslim men succeeded beyond their wildest dreams in their mission nine years ago. The majority of Muslims abhor terrorism, and Muslims are the disproportionate victims of Muslim terror, but the essential truth remains that most of the world's spectacular terrorism today -- thwarted and achieved -- is committed by Muslims. Juan Williams misunderstands one crucial fact: Muslim terrorists who are attempting to commit acts of terror seldom if ever dress in "Muslim garb"; they dress, for obvious tactical reasons, in a manner meant to help them blend in with surroundings.
The Fox News contributor will now appear exclusively and more frequently on the cable news network and have a regular column on FoxNews. Meanwhile, conservative leaders lambasted NPR for firing Williams and called for cutting public funding for the media organization. By midafternoon Thursday, more than 4, comments had been posted on NPR. Rehm said Williams had been warned several times in the past about making personal comments that violated the policy.
I don't think there's any way to get away from these facts. Williams told O'Reilly, "You've got to be careful" to point out that there are good Muslims. I'm not doing that anymore. I'm not doing it any more. I will say Muslim terrorists, but I'm not going to say -- oooh!
It's not, Juan. It's whole nations -- Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, whole nations. Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, called Williams' remarks "irresponsible and inflammatory An article on NPR's website said Williams' job as an analyst on the "largely conservative and often contentious prime time talk shows of Fox News has long been a sore point with NPR News executives.
But Schiller said Thursday that "we don't necessarily have an issue" with Williams' appearances on Fox. It's not the first time, quite honestly. Juan feels the way he feels. That is not for me to pass judgment on. His feelings that he expressed on Fox News are really between him and his psychiatrist, or his publicist, or take your pick, but it is not compatible with the role of a news analyst on NPR's air.
Schiller later apologized for the reference to Williams' psychiatrist, saying in a posting on NPR's website that the remark was "thoughtless. Some Republicans are calling for the network to be defunded, while FOX has offered the former NPR analyst a two-million-dollar contract.
He says that Williams admitted fear of Muslims on planes was meant to set up a more nuanced point, one that you don't get to hear in the edited clip. He says, this is my visceral feeling. I have this reaction. If you look at polling data, if you look at the uproar over the proposed Islamic center in New York, we obviously have a problem with fear of Muslims in this country, fear of Muslims driving a lot of what people are saying.
What are people who have been exposed to the ThinkProgress tape not hearing? She was confronting her own sort of racial stereotyping when sitting with a white farmer who was seeking assistance, and she was initially inclined not to help him. Of course, she saw the error of her ways, and that was the point of her story. And so if you saw the ThinkProgress clip, you saw something very similar.
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