Fox News Affiliate's Minneapolis Video Sparks Anti-Muslim Hate

[geardaddy]

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Fear mongering is alive and well in 2015. Besides blazing fast connection speeds to help you watch cat videos, the internet provides a platform to continuously spew bile like a vomit GIF.

Now a new video shot in progressive ol' Minneapolis has conservative bloggers and their racist commenters fuming at their keyboards.

Right-wing filmmaker Ami Horowitz, host of Fox News-affiliated video series "Ami on the Street," recently dropped in on the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood to get his finger on the pulse of Muslim Americans. In the series, Horowitz hits the pavement asking passersby questions about current events. Past videos have queried "hipster doofuses" about tax policy and asked French Muslims leading questions about the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Think Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" with a Republican bent.

The Minneapolis video starts off innocuously enough, with Horowitz asking people what it's like to be Muslim in America. The consensus among those chosen for the final edit was that it ain't no thang.

"This is a free country. That's the beauty of it," says one particularly effusive man. "We love America. It's a great country. Freedom of speech, freedom of choice of your religion, so we don't have any issues."

Feel-good stuff, right? Then Horowitz, director of United Nations takedown documentary "U.N. Me," starts asking if they would prefer to live under Shariah law instead of American law, with those featured on camera answering "yes."

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[Buzz Clik]

1. Mission accomplished for Mr. Horowitz.

And fuck him very much.

[geardaddy]

4. +1

[samsingh]

2. how is asking if someone supports shariah law anti-muslim? it's a simple yes or no question

and I certainly do not want sharia law.

[samsingh]

3. i have no problem with anyone wearing a religious symbol

but I don't want to be forced to wear one.

if do not want objective laws changed for any one religion.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Hate, bigotry and cultural genocide policy is nestled safely under the warm protective blanket of free speech gone wild.