NPR fires commentator for saying people in ‘Muslim garb’ make him nervous

Juan Williams, a former senior news analyst with National Public Radio, appeared on Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News program on Monday — he’s a regular guest on the show and a Fox News contributing analyst — where he said: “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 the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are …

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