Cenk Uygur
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How Societal Demonization Of Muslims Helps ISIS
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December 4, 2015
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18:20Now PlayingA lot of people are wondering who did the San Bernardino mass shooting? Yesterday as the story broke we had no names or other info on the shooters, but now we do. The shooters were muslims, and the New York Post wasted little time blasting this on their headline. This isn't helpful. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"“MUSLIM KILLERS.”
Sometimes the mask slips, doesn’t it? Sometimes the subtext is made text. The morning after a husband and wife allegedly murdered 14 people in San Bernardino, the New York Post decided to plainly and unabashedly articulate the racist framework through which we view crime in America. It turned out that the husband and wife were named Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, so the Post said what so many bigots were surely thinking: The most important thing about these two was not that they had just massacred more than a dozen innocent people, but that they were Muslim. To lift from Martin Luther King, the color of their skin was more significant than the content of their character. It would be difficult to find a more blatant example of racism.”*
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