"I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country," he said. "But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they're identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
Response from CAIRless:
But Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American Islamic relations, compared the ouster to radio shock jock Don Imus being fired for his "nappy-headed hos" comment, or people calling for Helen Thomas to lose her job after making anti-Israel remarks (Thomas, then 89 years old, abruptly retired).
"If you pay a professional price for those kinds of comments about other groups, it's only reasonable that you should do so when speaking about Muslims or Islam," Hooper said. He added, "How would [Williams] react if someone said the same thing about African Americans or another minority?"
WHOA HOOPER! African Americans or another minority didn't strike us on 9/11. It was Muslims.
Washington Post article 10/21/2010
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