Al Jazeera host Mehdi Hasan apologized over the weekend for remarks made a number of years ago that disparaged LGBT people and non-Muslims.
“Like a lot of journos (humans?) I’ve said things years ago that I now deeply regret. Chief among them for me is, more than a decade ago, in my 20s, when I wasn’t a public figure, I gave a bunch of speeches to students on Islam/extremism. And I said dumb offensive ranty stuff,” he said in a Twitter thread on Monday.
“Speaking without notes, & trying to be bombastic, I made stupid sweeping remarks about non-Muslims, especially atheists.