Don't know if anyone has followed the controversy (pretty insignificant if you ask me, considering that Haitians are dying of cholera and the world doesn't seem to care) following the debate over NPR firing Juan Williams over comments he made to Bill O'Reilly. What apparently got him in trouble was the following statement:

"I mean, look, Bill. I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

Now, I don't know that NPR firing him was the right thing to do. Frankly, I can take NPR or leave it. It's the default setting for my alarm clock because I can deal with waking up to their voices better than a blaring alarm (which puts me in a gripey mood for the rest of the day). But honestly, I don't listen to NPR. Firing him seems a bit over the top. However, what would the reaction have been if he'd said something similar about Jews, black men, or Catholics...just to name a few examples?

Having said that, it makes me sad that Mr. Williams is afraid of well over a billion people because of a few whose names make headlines.

I found this blog of Muslims wearing things....maybe this will help allay some of his fears.