Comic gives Islamophobe opportunity to take a star turn in front of a national audience

by: Salaam

Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 15:59:30 PM EST

Comic Bill Maher invited the particularly invidious Islamophobe Brigette Gabriel onto his season-premiere show to talk about the Aasiya Hassan slaying and spread misinformation.

While Maher was just exploiting the irony of the story, his via satellite guest for the segment, Brigitte Gabriel, was given a forum to further her fear-mongering cause....This story is pure gold to someone like Gabriel, whose mission is to spread a message that no Muslim-American, no matter how "assimilated" they may appear, can be trusted. With her glee in proclaiming on Real Time that Muzzammil Hassan had called the police to "brag" that he had murdered his wife (this is not true), Gabriel came across to the audience as a funny, personable guest. To those of us familiar with Gabriel, however, her glee was taken as something quite different.
The real Brigitte Gabriel is a woman who has said that Muslim-Americans shouldn't be allowed to hold public office, instructs people to contact the F.B.I. if they see a mosque being built in their neighborhood, and has said that Muslim-Americans, "Are good at nothing but complaining about every single thing."

For the purpose of correcting misinformation introduced into the public sphere, let's reiterate: Muzzammil Hassan never called the police to "brag" about killing his wife.

Salaam :: Comic gives Islamophobe opportunity to take a star turn in front of a national audience