Juan Williams is only human

Juan Williams of Fox News (and formerly of NPR), whom the latter has fired for saying that he gets nervous when he sees people in Muslim garb on an airplane, may be guilty of religious prejudice- just as all of us, regardless of color, are guilty of some degree of racial prejudice.

Even decent people are not perfect. The thing to do about the prejudice which is regrettably a part of every human being is to be sensitive to that part of ourselves, to identify it, and to fight it. Owning up to it is an act more worthy of praise than of condemnation.

That is nothing other than what Williams did. In fact, the commentator added to the very statement for which he was fired that Bill O'Reilly is wrong for blaming Muslims, rather than simply Muslim extremists, for anti-Western terrorism. All-in-all, it was a balanced and reasonable statement in which Williams did nothing worse than to confess to a certain amount of human weakness.

Williams should not have been fired. And if he's not reinstated, Mike Huckabee's suggestion should be implimented: Congress should cut NPR's funding.

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ADDENDUM: Here is a brief history of NPR's long record of politically correct intolerance.