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| Linda Chavez |
National Public Radio fired its longtime news analyst Juan Williams this week for saying something that many Americans feel. Williams, who also works as a Fox News Channel contributor (as I do), told FNC host Bill O'Reilly that when he gets on an airplane and sees someone in Muslim garb, he gets "nervous." Williams prefaced his remarks by reminding viewers that he had written several books about the civil rights movement. "I'm not a bigot," he said, noting that his uneasiness has a basis in fact.
He recalled the would-be Times Square bomber's words last week when he was sentenced to life in prison for trying to detonate a bomb. "The war with Muslims is just beginning," Williams paraphrased. But Faisal Shahzad's actual statement was far more chilling. Shahzad warned those in the courtroom: "Brace yourself, because the war with Muslims has just begun. Consider me the first droplet of the blood that will follow." And Shahzad's tirade is only the latest in a long string of invectives by those who claim to speak for Islam. Read more here:
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