Mainstream platforms aired hate speech against Muslims that would be unacceptable toward other groups

Evidence

The media provided a platform not only for information and balanced reporting but also for anti-Islam and anti-Muslim statements by political leaders, commentators, and a host of “preachers of hate.” Far Right political and religious commentators wrote and spoke out publicly about Islam and Muslims, asserting with impunity what would never appear in mainstream broadcast or print media regarding American Jews, Christians, and established ethnic groups. The Quran was compared to Mein Kampf. Conservative commentators engaged in hate speech. Ann Coulter, for example, stated, “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.” Michael Savage opined on his widely distributed radio show “The Savage Nation,” “I think these people [Arabs and Muslims] need to be forcibly converted to Christianity… . ​It’s the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings.” — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 36

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the patterns in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — dominant groups license speech against out-groups that would be taboo about their own. — connects to: Broadcast censorship norms permitted anti-black and anti-Asian slurs but bleeped profanity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 195