Thursday, March 28, 2024

Joy Reid Devotes Segment to Muslim Stereotypes After Trump, Ilhan Omar Accuse Her of ‘Islamophobia’ [VIDEO]

*MSNBC host Joy Reid devoted a segment of her show on Wednesday to stereotypes about Muslims, after Trump, Ilhan Omar and several groups called on her to apologize for her on-air Islamophobia.

On Monday’s “The ReidOut,” she touched on Trump’s response to violence among his supporters in Portland and Kenosha, asking a panel, “When leaders, let’s say in the Muslim world, talk a lot of violent talk, and encourage their supporters to be willing to commit violence … in order to win against whoever they decide is the enemy, we in the U.S. media describe that as they are ‘radicalizing’ those people, particularly when they’re radicalizing young people, that’s how we talk about the way that Muslims act. When you see what Donald Trump is doing, is that any different from what we describe as radicalizing people?”

After her remarks, viewers and politicians alike expressed their outrage on social media. 

“Honestly, this kinda of casual Islamophobia is hurtful and dangerous,” IIhan Omar (D-Minn.). “We deserve better and an apology for the painful moment for so many Muslims around our country should be forthcoming.”

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Trump took to Twitter and demanded that Reid be fired over her remarks about his angry, gun-totting supporters. 

“Like Fredo at Fake News @CNN, the very untalented Joy Reid should be fired for this horrible use of the words ‘Muslim Terrorists’. Such xenophobia and racism on MSDNC. Anyone else would be gone, and fast!!!” he wrote. The Fredo reference is about CNN’s Chris Cuomo.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) also called on Reid to apologize. 

“Words matter and these words feed into the harmful anti-Muslim rhetoric & actions that we continue to see in this country. It is even more painful to hear it from someone I admire,” Tlaib wrote. “We deserve an apology.”

Reid addressed the reaction to her comments Wednesday night, noting that many “reflected the genuine feelings of people who’ve been subjected to the kind of stereotyping that I just described, and who take matters like this to heart because of it. And we should all be sensitive to that, and I certainly should have been sensitive to that.”

She also acknowledged that she should have been more “sensitive” when she seemingly compared radicalized Trump supporters to “the way Muslims act” when radicalizing supporters. 

“The way that I framed it obviously didn’t work,” she said.

“For decades, America’s Muslim community has endured blanket portrayals that focus on one thing, not their families or individual achievements or even anything about Islam,” Reid said Wednesday at the top of the segment. “Nope, just one thing: terrorism. Particularly after 9/11, profiling became a near American obsession for anybody Brown—god forbid with a beard or headscarf, whether they were Muslim or not, traveling through an airport could be hell. Physical attacks on not just Muslims, but Sikhs, who are not Muslim, increased,” said.

“It’s the misportrayal that is the problem,” she stated. “We’re all too quick to call out those who radicalize young men who are vulnerable. There have been treatments of this all over cable news for years. But when white Christians are radicalized, we don’t react the same way. When was the last time Donald Trump or anyone in his campaign was asked if they are willing to condemn the Boogaloo Boys by name?,” she added. 

Meanwhile, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says it met with NBC executives to discuss Reid’s remarks on Monday.

“Thank you @NBC for meeting to discuss our concerns about @JoyAnnReid’s inaccurate, offensive remarks. We appreciate your pledge to avoid Islamophobia in all forms,” CAIR tweeted Wednesday.

The group added that Reid “must clearly apologize tonight. Anti-Muslim bigotry has no place in mainstream society.”

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