The Daily Mail had written a piece that C Christine Flair, a professor from Georgetown University, had a meltdown after her Muslim colleague voted for Donald Trump
A professor from Georgetown University in Washington DC has written a detailed Facebook post criticising UK tabloid Daily Mail for taking a one-sided stance in a story that maligned her. According to the tabloid, C Christine Fair had a meltdown after her colleague Asra Q Nomani wrote a piece in The Washington Post on why despite she was a Muslim, she voted for Donald Trump.
Following the article getting published, Nomani has alleged that Fair, a colleague who she was friends with, started abusing her on Facebook and Twitter. On November 22, Fair allegedly tweeted that Nomani was a fame-mongering clown show, who voted for a bigot.
In two letters written to the University – one on December 2 and the second one on December 23 – Nomani has taken Twitter screenshots of Fair telling her what she thought of Nomani voting for Trump.
While Fair had posted on Facebook, which is now only available if one is Facebook friends with her, that she did abuse Nomani and felt that she is a ‘sensationalist trafficking in controversial positions for no obvious intellectual reasons.’
This was picked up by US’s The Daily Caller, where they sided with Nomani and said that Fair had gone on a rant. The Daily Mail then picked up the story, following which it went viral. The UK tabloid even posted screenshots of the Twitter conversations between Nomani and Fair, as well as the first Facebook post.
On December 28, Fair questioned The Daily Mail’s article in another Facebook post, which has gained her a lot of popularity. In it, she says that the while the individual who wrote the piece had written to her for her reaction, he did so only after the piece that shamed her was published. “I will be making this exchange public so that people know what I explained to you before you run your account, which as written is not journalism; rather hasty cutting and pasting from a dubious news outlet,” she wrote.
While putting her point, Fair said that while she tweeted several comments on November 22, they did not involve foul language. “These tweets identify several problems with someone normalizing a vote for the most outrageous president we have had. These tweets were based upon a Washington Post article and subsequent news appearances by Ms. Nomani. They were NOT based upon my personal knowledge of her private voting behaviour,” she said.
Fair has further claimed that Nomani didn’t write to her employer after the November 22 tweets. “She did so after I exposed her for misrepresenting me and my comments to a scholar. This scholar is doing work on how journalists were treated covering the Trump affair. I noticed that Ms. Nomani (not tagging me) reached out to this scholar. She provided a redacted account of our personal DM's to give the impression that I DM'ed her first. I provided the entire transcript to said scholar at which point Ms. Nomani went ballistic and began tagging my employer. Thus, you and the Daily Caller, and have been played by her,” added Fair.
In the detailed post, where Fair also said that Nomani never blocked her on Twitter nor were they ever friends on Facebook, she added that whether anyone agrees with her, she has the right to disagree with a public figure who has defended as bravery what others like myself find indefensible. “This is the principle of freedom of speech. This dispute does not involve my employer. You, as a journalist--if that is what you are--should appreciate this,” she added.
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