Now, What Would Make You Think There’s Anti-muslim Bias in the USA?

<p>My friend Hussein Ibish, executive director of the Foundation for Arab-American Leadership in Washington, D.C., gave a speech at Tulane University on confronting misperceptions of Arabs in the U.S. the other day. It was <a title="covered" href="http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-27/120348915560280.xml&amp;coll=1" id="jwe8">covered</a> in the New Orleans Times-Picayune<i>, </i>and today USA Today picked the piece up. But the web edition, at least, gave it <a title="this headline" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-02-20-muslim-views_N.htm" id="dm_b">this headline</a>: <span class="inside-head">&quot;Muslim leader decries American ‘bigotry’ against Islam.&quot;<br /><br />

What’s wrong with that, you ask? Oh, just the small but pertinent fact that <i>Hussein isn’t a Muslim</i>. Way to go, USA Today! We’ll consider that a subtle attempt to prove Hussein’s point. Either that or your Web headline writer is a jackass.</span></p>