Ramy Youssef addresses the Fox News backlash after teaching Elmo Arabic words on "Sesame Street": "The comments were on a level that I actually didn’t anticipate," Youssef says. "Just immediately seeing people going, ‘there are millions of people who ne

Ramy Youssef addresses the Fox News backlash after teaching Elmo Arabic words on "Sesame Street":

"The comments were on a level that I actually didn’t anticipate," Youssef says. "Just immediately seeing people going, ‘there are millions of people who need to be deported tomorrow,’ and ‘the people must leave.’ And then Fox News just making claims that are wholesale not true, that ‘Sesame Street’ doesn’t do this for any other language.’ So it is this thing where you feel this ramp-up of anti-Muslim sentiment, of Islamophobia."

"It’s such a loving program, and yeah, we know that there are people who are going to act this way. Right now they’re celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month and that got a lot of hateful comments too. ‘Sesame Street’ knows what their job is, to spread love and the goal has to be that the next generation of kids doesn’t have this limited of a scope."
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