Seems like the rest of the world is catching up to this story.


From the Auto Racing Daily:
http://www.autoracingdaily.com/



NASCAR yesterday strongly objected to a planned series of news reports that
targets race fans as potential sources of harassment of Muslim-Americans.

As part of a broad story about American attitudes toward Islam, NBC
newsmagazine "Dateline" is placing Muslim and Arab-American volunteers in a
variety of public places, including NASCAR races, and filming their
experiences in an attempt to record discrimination or harassment.

"I think it's outrageous for a news organization of NBC's stature to go
around and create news as opposed to reporting the news," NASCAR spokesman
Ramsey Poston said. "Every legitimate journalist should be offended by
this."

Arab-Americans were stationed in the crowd at last week's NASCAR race in
Martinsville, Va., and NBC is considering doing the same at Sunday's race
in Fort Worth, Texas.




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I would think a more interesting show would cover the Xenophobia, not
racism, of many Nascar fans and the Japanese involvement. (Toyota)
I just don't hear of many Muslim Nascar fans. To be sure, there must be
some, but they just don't have enough prescense in America to warrant an
investigational TV show. Heck, they could probably go out and find many
more Nascar fans that hate cats. Or Chevy's, or Coke vs Pepsi.


dave henrie