In the wake of the Chapel Hill shooting that took the lives of three Muslim students, “The Nightly Show” host Larry Wilmore dedicated Tuesday’s show to the phenomenon of Islamophobia.
Wilmore was curious for more details on the shooter, Craig Stephen Hicks, to determine whether or not the Feb. 10 shooting was a hate crime or, as police have said, a “parking dispute” gone wrong.
After learning more about Hicks’ alleged anti-Muslim and anti-religious obsessions, the host played a clip of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough asking whether Hicks was simply a version of George Zimmerman, the volunteer neighborhood watchman who shot dead black 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012.
“Seriously, what’s going on with all these racist Elmer Fudds?” Wilmore asked. “Be very quiet, I’m hunting Muslims.”
Watch the clip:
