’You don’t sound American’, TV host tells Muslim blogger from Oklahoma | US news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/14/muslim-blogger-hoda-katebi-chicago-wgn-news
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNwzxPpRVoA&feature=youtu.be
Invitée pour parler de son livre sur la mode vestimentaire à Téhéran, une fille musulmane est brusquement sommée de condamner l’Iran pour prouver son appartenance à « l’identité étasunienne ».
Hoda Katebi, 23, was invited onto Chicago’s WGN News morning show to speak about her book, Tehran Streetstyle, but [...] one of the presenters made a sharp turn to geopolitics, and asked: “Let’s talk about nuclear weapons. Some of our viewers may say we cannot trust Iran. What are your thoughts?”
Mais la réaction a été contraire,
Katebi responded: “I don’t think we can trust this country [the US]. When we see the legacy of this country and the violence that it has not only created but also created the capacity for, a lot of these weapons in the Middle East are completely brought in by the Unites States.”
This exchange prompted the presenter to tell Katebi: “A lot of Americans might take offence to that. You’re an American, you don’t sound like an American when you say [this] … you know what I mean.”
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Katebi, who studied international relations and Middle Eastern politics at University of Chicago, shrugged off the comment with a laugh – which she told the Guardian was prompted by the “absurdity” of the question.
“I don’t think I would have gotten the same question if I was white – despite being born and raised in this country,” she said.
Katebi said she had sensed a shift in attitudes towards Muslims in the US since the election of Donald Trump. “ People now feel very confident in being able to voice Islamophobic opinions that might have kept to themselves before, ” she said.
A WGN spokesperson said: “WGN-TV anchor Robin Baumgarten spoke with Hoda Katebi this morning. Robin apologized to Hoda and they had a constructive dialogue about micro-aggressions. WGN, Robin and Hoda will be working together to use this as a teachable moment to encourage education and a deeper understanding of race, religion and identity struggles.”
