mg, I don't get the analogy of "men in white robes" to "people in Muslim garb.   The white robes that I'm guessing you're referring to are the kind the KKK wore (not the kind the Pope wears), and that organization specifically stood (stands?) for racial segregation and sometimes violence against blacks. "Muslim garb" -- which is nowhere near as specific as "white robes" -- bears little resemblance to the attire of the guys who carried out the 9-11-01 attacks and represents a diverse array of people, the vast majority of whom do not espouse violence or the oppression of anyone else.

I still say that the problem with Williams's "admission" is not that he was sharing a feeling so we could all hope to overcome such, but that the gut feeling he expressed is so totally illogical and not even attributable to classical conditioning; it seems to represent an ethnic stereotyping spawned mainly by over-reaching political factions in the US.

Anyway, as we've discussed, it doesn't seem like he was fired solely, or even mainly, for that comment.