Video- CAIR's Nihad Awad on Democracy Now! to Discuss Boston Bombing
Democracy Now discusses the media's coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing with Nihad Awad, National Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations.
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alicia near the finish line at the Boston marathon conservative
columnist
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erica rushed weed and then delete it when he claimed was a joke about
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rounding up saudis and killing them
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he treated quote everybody do the national security and go grab let's
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bring more Saudis and without screening them come on to which someone
replied
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quote sweet garter you're already blaming Muslims ever crash then
sweetie
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back yes their evil let's kill them all by let's go to any out of wind
in
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Washington D_C_
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uh...
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is the nationally second director of counts on and uh... on American Islamic
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relations your response
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what Israel fortunate that uh... fox news with a low uh... a common to
have
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to have to still being dazed with them
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so we should in action and you have to ask the public to contact fox
news and
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and dot misconduct it though
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have basically
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is calling for religious the genocide against Muslims without uh...
knowing
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the evidence ad against the uh... the mostly community or members of the
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Muslim community
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so fortunately politically dividend commentator's
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and self-styled experts uh... on terrorism like Steven Emerson
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or has a carryover I’ve just done in gaming American Muslims and a
targeting
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them
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continued to have uh... attention and where continued to be hosted by
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major networks uh... with
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total disregard to the sensitivities and to the facts themselves so
uh... idled
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out thousands of people contacted on fox news to aspin to adopt this
commentator
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what i wonder how many more
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of needed on the foxnews pays attention to exclude immediately which is
the on
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the line
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al all it's pretty hard like ashu that you have that
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two things here you have the existing biases that all already exists
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consciously or self-consciously in the media but then you have now
because all
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of the on the internet now this it's enormous pressure on news
organizations
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to be the first to report something alright any break on a major story
in
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the combination of these things one is going to have to reporting that
the
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public has received well i think there's this tendency in broadcast
becoming
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television to be the first outlet report something that
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is going to be public in a matter of minutes hours anyway um... television
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outlets take great pride in declaring a winner of an election five
seconds
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before their competitors so i think this is built in kind of absurd
competition i
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think more uh... important in this case is the history that we draw on
we read
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that uh... headline jim block letters across the front page of u_s_a_
today
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uh... the day afterwards terror has returned this idea that the united
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states has not seen a terrorist attacks since nine eleven this is a
unique
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and then right now
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and were forgiving a series of attacks committed by domestic rightwing
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extremists
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uh... the sikh temple massacre were talking about
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uh... the guy who went to a unitarian church in tennessee killed two
people
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was inspired by a right wing author several acts that seemed to be
connected
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to the rhetoric of glenn beck these things are flushed down the memory
whole
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we don't even recall
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are clearly enough
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grew the actual culprit was in atlanta and the atlanta bombing people
remember
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richard jewel
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remember the rush to
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to consider him a suspect they forget that eric rudolph a right wing
domestic
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terrorist antiabortion extremist was the person responsible for this we
forget
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all of these things in our mind
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in the in the media carmine turns to moslems to islamic terrorism
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to the times square attempted bombing last night county central's jon
stewart
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blasted c_n_n_'s mis reporting
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hopefully of information arrest has been made
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than investors zero misidentified has now been arrested i was told by a
boston
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law enforcement sources
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i can't
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activity of so many people this is is so important
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so many people in the region nine did he give you the details is
effective law
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enforcement sources arrested today
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based on two different video showing images of the suspect video
enhancement
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showed great dark-skinned male placing the package but the second
exposure side
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backing away west after skin a little way that's
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narrow that down and i did anybody terminal former chicago both ford and
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current diplomat dennis rodman's hair
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dons dot georgetown dot edu
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brooklyn assemblyman dov hikind if it will pour out
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ghar
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for actor and said that the while
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but you know what they had a tremendous amount information and and more
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importantly
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we're getting some exclusive information
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from c_n_n_'s john king you're working your sources you getting more
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information exclusive report and you heard this dramatic
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explosive reporting this job is done now you-know-what
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which is why you turn to c_n_n_
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in a correctional
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when a financial times we do
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hotel joseph first class
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but i said it is a that the boots on the ground and and making dinner
for ten you
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know i as one of the competitors i guess we just get the little jeff
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of these kinds of exclusives
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although we we we soon learned there was a very good read
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and why
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uh...
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this was exclusive
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thursday nala rest
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and in fact a suspect has not been identified by name yet
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although its exclusive
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because it was completely the
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we're all
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that fit me in john stay word on uh... on the c_n_n_
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explicit ones
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what uh... i want to ask the they had a lot of my another school said
that he
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would just or didn't catch the the yard the flight that was landed on
this week
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because i want to
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are two men on the flight warmer speaking of carpet
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it's it's a little unfortunate that uh... it to some people speaking at
a
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big girl ice-t_ terribly terrible speaking and the foreign languages in
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addition to engage
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is not a sign of crying and uh...
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at this uh... hiked and uh... enough time people should be
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sensitive should be aware
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that unit doing this calamity and attacks on america
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uh...
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we should all be united there
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and and this is what's what's with the world is going to read it uh...
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to one another we don't get at each other and uh... you know being
defending
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that this is what's beautiful of all of this country with there being
ghetto
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having uh... differently is different in the different ethnicities
speaking more
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than one language it is not a sign of suspicion or crime so yeah we we
see
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some panic as sometimes it during this crisis but uh... it's also up to
the
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media how how the report this and i would like
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to see uh... reporters like uh...
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wolf blitzer and uh... john storage on uh... king holding themselves to
ohio
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and released to qa standards are not going to win the race and prejudice
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india commentary and just to check the facts n
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not do enough to do do you believe the war covault for investigators in
the
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damndest to get those famous in
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their work
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and i also have to say that the i have been uh... you know impressed by
the
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investigators where the government spokespeople double restrained then
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didn't they had been sitting that go on for the information to wait and
see if
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you come to judge the facts not to judge race or assigned being to
people uh...
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entire communities
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or or ethnicities or religion
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and uh... i mean this is a wrong and which would have been so many
lessons
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from the past
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i think the concerns on the focus should be
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the uh... the victims and their families counseling them uh... macon
didn't know
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that we all are around him
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we we did on our faults they are in our prayer
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and that also the investigators do their job and we can see and i'm just
to have
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the be this sense of competition just to fill the air time dissident
shooting
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uh... off all miles just to fuzhou you know some desires and and
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competitiveness it it is a home for length it is to be on a very well
the
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f_b_i_ release a scathing statement caution journalists not to jump to
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conclusions saying quote over the past and
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half there'd been a number press reports based information from
unofficial
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sources and it's been an accurate since the stories often have
unintended
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consequences
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we asked the media particularly at this early stage investigation to
exercise
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caution attempt to verify information through appropriate official
channels
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before reporting they said
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and that as this segment of course will continue to cover the news act
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