CNN's Anti-Islam Bigots

CNN's So-Called "Journalist" Don Lemom and Others.

Offending Zionist sensibilities is an affront worthy of career loss and public debasement in the United States. This is what happened to veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas when she said that Israelis Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine". Leaving aside the merit of her comment, Zionists in the country routinely say the same thing about Palestinians (you know, the actual natives and not immigrants to...Palestine) and suffer no consequence. Not even a critique.

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And, recently, the lousy CNN fired a 20-year career journalist over 120 words. Octavia Nasr made an ill-worded Twitter comment offering respect to a Shite cleric who passed away. Her words are solely in regard to his effort in promoting women's rights - atypical for any religious cleric - and in league with past praises that came from many establishment figured in America, like Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. But Zionists pounded 'how dare she say nice things about a Hezbollah (which he was not) man?' and CNN summarily fired her.

But genuine, not fabricated or double-standard ones, offenses and prejudices against Muslims are not only not met with criticism but not even seen as something which is wrong or to be bothered by. Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim prejudice is simple casually.

Consider noted jackass and day anchor Don Lemon. I noticed this guy bearing an anti-Muslim animus a while back as he once referred to a pro-Palestinian rally as pro-Hamas (in an effort to discredit them as terrorist sympathizers) and in a prompt about Helen Thomas' comment casually stated that they are anti-Semitic when this guy is supposed to be an objective correspondent and not make judgments about the merits or virtue of this or that rally or comment. But his Zionist sympathizers and hostilities to Muslims comes through and recently quite explicitly:

CNN anchor Don Lemon hosted a "debate" this weekend over the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan (misleadingly described everywhere as the "Ground Zero mosque") in which Lemon dropped his mask of journalistic objectivity completely and, in doing so, perfectly captured the crux of the ugly case against Park 51. This is the exchange he had with Eboo Patel, Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Corps, after Patel explained that religious liberty and pluralism have been core values of America since the founding (video below; h/t Farhan Khan):

Lemon: Don't you think it's a bit different considering what happened on 9/11? And the people have said there's a need for it in Lower Manhattan, so that's why it's being built there. What about 10, 20 blocks . . . Midtown Manhattan, considering the circumstances behind this? That's not understandable?

Patel: In America, we don't tell people based on their race or religion or ethnicity that they are free in this place, but not in that place --

Lemon: [interrupting] I understand that, but there's always context, Mr. Patel . . . this is an extraordinary circumstance. You understand that this is very heated. Many people lost their loved ones on 9/11 --

Patel: Including Muslim Americans who lost their loved ones. . . .

Lemon: Consider the context here. That's what I'm talking about.

Patel: I have to tell you that this seems a little like telling black people 50 years ago: you can sit anywhere on the bus you like - just not in the front.

Lemon: I think that's apples and oranges - I don't think that black people were behind a Terrorist plot to kill people and drive planes into a building. That's a completely different circumstance.

Patel: And American Muslims were not behind the terrorist plot either.

That sums it up about as well as anything I've heard. Nothing related to Muslims should be near Ground Zero, because it was Muslims generally -- not the handful of extremists -- who flew the planes into those buildings. It's just amazing that that last point from Patel even needs to be uttered, but it does. This campaign is nothing different than all of the standard, definitively bigoted efforts to hold entire demographic groups of people responsible for the aberrational acts of a small percentage of individual members. Congratulations to CNN's Don Lemon for laying it all out in its naked clarity. This whole controversy is exactly that disgusting.

So this jerk thinks that all Muslims everywhere have to be held responsible for the deeds of Bin Ladin? Should blacks not be allowed to build centers near Korean businesses due to the L.A. riots?

Only a vulgar bigot would make such a comment that an entire community must have their rights and honor revoked because of the actions of a fringe few. And CNN will do nothing about it.

P.S. This is the second time that CNN has done this. Another anchor made a similar statement in an interview that all Muslims should be held accountable and thus be prevented from buildings because some Muslims did some awful terrorist acts to unrelated Muslims must bear the price.

H/T: Glenn Greenwald.