Friend of slain Muslim students rips GOP and Fox News: Stop dehumanizing Muslims

[DonViejo]

Shafi Khan, a friend of the Muslim students shot dead in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, blasted Republicans and Fox News on Wednesday for demonizing people of the Muslim faith.

“Speaking as an American Muslim, I can tell you that we can’t deny there’s a sentiment in the community that we feel that we were being targeted for our faith,” he told CNN “There is certain sections of the media and political apparatus that are constantly demonizing Muslims. And I want to take a minute and ask people like Fox News and Bobby Jindal to stop the dehumanization of Muslims.”

Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder Tuesday for the shooting deaths of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Mohammad, 21 and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19.

“It’s really, really starting to take a toll. Last week an elected official named John Bennett who’s a state senator said Islam is a cancer that needs to be cut out of society,” Khan explained. “And the Republican Party establishment came out and made a point to say that we stand by him.”

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[Fred Sanders]

1. The mass media should be saying these things, because it is true, if not now, then when?

Preparations for a new Holocaust must be stopped now. Now.

Mass media, are you up to it?

Fox is a cancer that is killing others by systematically feeding lies and xenophobia to the bigots, driving some over the edge to kill, to say so IS free speech.

Fox is hate speech, it may be legal but why can it not be discussed openly in the wider media that itself has been caught lying?

Maybe I answered my own question?