Was it ok for Juan Williams to pray on the fear on simple folk, to equate people dressed, as some Middle Easterns do, with Terrorists? Well, it isn't ok for a high caliber, educated journalist/commentator that also represents NPR to continue to promote and pray on the uneducated fear of some Americans that he too is "nervous" by simply being with people that look like Muslims, just so that he can receive a paycheck from Fox News. He knew better, but I think he knows he sold his integrity for a fistful of silver coins. Do you know why most Americans are NOT "nervous" or afraid of Catholics bombing FBI buildings? Because Timothy McVeigh was a White Catholic, a White Christian. If you are any of the two groups, you won't fear them, get nervous, and won't generalize either from singular events. However, some of us are still afraid of ANY group we are not part of, or are not familiar with, ignorant, or can't or don't want to understand. But that and out of itself is not enough reason to fear them (put them in prison, concentrated camps, cast them away, degrade them, treat them unequal, etc).
WE were suppose to leave that fear behind when we matured, learned the simple fact that not knowing a group doesn't mean we should fear it (degrade it, kill it, etc; we continue to do this with inoffensive spiders for example). It is an understandable and expected behavior of children and ignorant people. But not of Juan Williams, or any figure in High position with NPR or any mature News Organization. That is the point. Not ok to add fuel to ignorance and fear, not for money, not for any reason.
Obviously there are enough people that don't mature even well into adulthood; they can't still leave behind their security blanket, pacifier, baseball cap, dark sunglasses, Guardian Angels and/or other similar "powerful" but conveniently invisible beings in order to "feel" protected from ignorant, unrealistic fear. These are the very people Fox News caters to, and now it appears Juan Williams will too.
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