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ANN ARBOR - In last week's edition of "The Arab American News," writer Ali Moossavi pointed out that "Islamophobia is an institutionalized phenomenon that exists to varying degrees across the political spectrum." It has indeed become a largely acceptable form of racism, as pernicious as it is. Moosavi concluded that "We know what the problem is." Correctly, he noted that we really should be asking "what are we going to do about it?
Colorado Media Matters chronicled some of the bigotry typical of too many broadcasts on an August 8 broadcast of 630 KHOW-AM's "The Peter Boyles Show." According to the organization, "guest host Lou Pate joined a caller in denigrating Muslims and the Islamic faith." Pate said Muslims "don't respect women at all." He said sarcastically, "they're a peaceful, benevolent, kind people, the Muslims are ... [I]f they like you, they'll cut your head off with one swing instead of a jagged edge that takes seven or eight."When a caller referred to the Muslim people as a "sick race," Pate agreed. He called them "a violent community." He also railed on about the "honor killings ... that they condone. They will kill ... their own wives; they will kill their own daughters."See the full content of this document
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Media Activists Confront Bigotry in Talk Radio
ANN ARBOR - In last week's edition of "The Arab American News," writer Ali Moossavi pointed out that "Islamophobia is an institutionalized phenomenon that exists to varying degrees across the political spectrum." It has indeed be...
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