Last week Juan Williams gave the nation a Rorschach test. Williams said he gets scared when people in “Muslim garb” board a plane he’s on, and he promptly got (a) fired by NPR and (b) rewarded by Fox News with a big contract. Suppose Williams had said something hurtful to gay people instead of to Mulsims.
Suppose he had said gay men give him the creeps because he fears they'll make sexual advances. NPR might well have fired him, but would Fox News have chosen that moment to give him a $2-million pat on the back?
I don' think so. Playing the homophobia card is costlier than playing the Islamophobia card.
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My response to Williams and all those who fear "Muslim garb" on planes would be the following Maz Jobrani video (Fwd to 1:10):
Click here for the rest of this awesome article: Islamophobia and Homophobia
My response to Williams and all those who fear "Muslim garb" on planes would be the following Maz Jobrani video (Fwd to 1:10):
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