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The Michigan leader of a Muslim civil rights group praised ABC for swiftly canceling Roseanne Barr’s revived series Tuesday but said her racist tweet against a former Obama administration official illustrates how hateful conspiracy theories are going mainstream.
Barr’s show “Roseanne,” a surprise hit, was dropped in the uproar over her tweet that called Valerie Jarrett a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the “Planet of the Apes.”
“There are some people who are aligned with (President) Donald Trump who feel emboldened to speak out publicly against (former President Barack) Obama and those high up in his administration,” said Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Michigan chapter. CAIR Michigan is part of America’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization.