AAJA And MPAC Demand Action After Fox Host Advocated For Violence Against Muslims

[steve2470]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/08/28/aaja-and-mpac-demand-action-after-fox-host-advo/200578

The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) are demanding action from Fox News after a host linked all Muslims to terrorists and advocated for violence against practitioners of the faith.

In an August 27 statement, the Asian American Journalist Association condemned Fox co-host Andrea Tantaros for making blanket statements conflating all Muslims to the Islamic State and advocating for violence against them. AAJA called on the network to apologize:

AAJA calls for Tantaros and Fox News to apologize for the irresponsible, inflammatory statements. We also call on Fox News to discourage its journalists from making blanket comments that serve to perpetuate hate and Islamophobia.

Muslims and Islam are not interchangeable terms with terrorists or ISIS. We in the media know better and must be vigilant in our choice of words.

The AAJA joined the Muslim Public Affairs Council in their outrage over the offensive Fox segment. MPAC previously called for the network to fire Tantaros following her inflammatory statements.

[Scuba]

1. Isn't "a bullet to the head" enough to get her tossed off the air and Fox censured by the FCC?

It ought to be.

[Cha]

2. Dangerouly stupid fox "news" bobbleheads.

[tblue37]

3. Think of how many people are attacked--and some have even been killed--because some ignorant bigot

on TV or radio shoots off his or her irresponsible, hateful mouth. In fact, sometimes their listeners attack people they just *think* are Muslims, like the Sikh store clerk who was murdered after 9/11 because the shooter thought he was a Muslim.

The FCC should penalize such comments and the DoJ should charge a person advocating violence against a demographic group with incitement and hate crimes.