NPR News has terminated the contract of longtime news analyst Juan Williams after remarks he made on the Fox News Channel about Muslims.
Williams appeared Monday on The O'Reilly Factor, and host Bill O'Reilly asked him to comment on the idea that the U.S. is facing a dilemma with Muslims.
O'Reilly has been looking for support for his own remarks on a recent episode of ABC's The View in which he directly blamed Muslims for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the set in the middle of his appearance.
Williams responded: "Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
I’m getting a little tired of this new point of view that you can’t express your own opinions when it come to Muslims. I guess criticizing Muslims has become a national offense. Well it became a firing offense to Juan Williams! That free speech thing doesn’t apply any longer. Not if you don’t comply with the Liberal press.
Maybe what Juan Williams said was dumb. But what NPR did was even dumber and inexcusable. If there was anyone who showed a lack of respect for Free-Speech, it was NPR. This Political Correctness is going to kill off all of the decent and even the half decent commentators in America.
Juan only told how he felt and he told the truth, this was his opinion and his feelings. I think that plenty of people feel the same way when they are on an airplane and see someone covered in a black berka. So what!