Joey de Leon and Tito Sotto Get Flak from Muslim Community for their ‘Insensitive’ Halloween Costume
ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman released a statement on Saturday, October 31, demanding a public apology from Eat Bulaga hosts Joey de Leon and Tito Sotto for mocking the image of Muslims by wearing the Arab garment as Halloween costume.
In an open letter, Gov. Hataman called the two hosts “insensitive.”
“This display betrays an insensitivity by these hosts, as they equated the Muslim garb as a costume to be feared, in the way that zombies and ghouls are to be feared. We remind the hosts and the producers of the show of how Muslims are quite often discriminated against in our society, often stereotyped as troublemakers and terrorists,” he said.
“What Eat Bulaga did in its Halloween Special was a mockery of and an affront to the image of the Muslim, apparently in the name of entertainment….On behalf of the Filipino Moro people, we demand that producers and hosts of the noontime show issue a public apology,” Hataman added.
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