In 2016, Oz showcased the warm and fuzzy side of a well-documented bigot for his daytime television audience.
. An outraged Oz told the Associated Press that Barnette’s anti-Muslim bigotry was “disqualifying,” saying, “It’s reprehensible that she would tweet out something that is defamatory to an entire religion.”To Oz, a handful of her tweets were “disqualifying” to be a senator, whereas a tsunami of anti-Muslim hate from Trump was apparently not.
It feels painfully transparent that Oz only criticized Barnette’s comments because she was gaining on him in the polls. That same motivation — political gain — is the likely reason why Oz welcomed Trump on his show in 2016, and why heabout 13 percent of Muslim Americans supported Trump. He didn't fare much better in 2020, with approximately 17 percent of Muslim Americans casting a ballot for him while nearly 70 percent voted for President Joe Biden.
Every minority community has highly visible people who do not represent the mainstream views of that community. We can debate why they have made that choice. But in the case of Oz, we know why: It’s because it helped him politically. If Oz does end up securing the GOP Senate nomination in Pennsylvania, my hope is that the Muslim community in the Keystone State will lead the charge in defeating him. We need the first Muslim American United States Senator to be one we can be proud of — not one who turned his back on our community in our time of need because it helped his bottom line.
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