Mehdi Hasan
Role at the time: Journalist and commentator
Condemned
Responding to
Yousef's remarks and the audience applause constituted anti-Muslim hate and warranted an apology and repudiation from the summit and its sponsors.
"I'm trying to imagine the reaction from our media and politicians if a speaker at a 'Muslim American Summit' said, to loud applause, 'I don't want Jews in America.'"
Why we used this label
The analogy presents the statement as plainly discriminatory and exposes what Hasan argues is a double standard in the response.