Bassem Youssef condemns discrimination in the West and Middle East, and gets picked on

Bassem Youssef rails against double standard of discrimination: In an interview with Deutsche Welle (watch, runtime 9:00), satirist Bassem Youssef rails against the double standard that pushes some to denounce Trump’s discrimination against Muslims in the US but stand idly by when religious minorities are exposed to the same brand of hate in the Middle East. Youssef later got steamrolled by the Internet’s moral absolutists and put out two posts on Facebook explaining that his taking a stand against discrimination in the United States and the same practices in the Arab world are not mutually exclusive. As for Egyptians who support Trump, Youssef has a simple message: When the [redacted] hits the fan, you’ll be left wiping your face.