Lemon, winner of a “worst in journalism” award by the Columbia Journalism Review, not only made generalizations about the Black community, but he also made generalizations about other races as well. One of the most recent examples comes from an interview he did with Muslim-American human rights lawyer Arsalan Iftikhar. During the interview, he asked Iftikhar if he supported ISIS. It was a question stemming from racist assumptions about Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent. “Wait, did you just ask me if I supported ISIS,” he asked Lemon. The anchor skated past the embarrassing incident without further question, but Iftikhar wasn’t done. He wrote a post in The Islamic Monthly explaining that he thought he “misheard” Lemon because “surely there was no respectable journalist in the world who would ask a Muslim human rights lawyer whether he supports an organization which violates human rights each and every day.”
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