The retailer stopped advertising on TLC’s “All-American Muslim” after a conservative group known as the Florida Family Association complained

“People are afraid of certain things. This word Muslim or Islam just has a bad rap,” says Basir.

Tuesday’s resolution, sponsored by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative party, had been widely expected to win approval in the National Assembly with rival Socialists backing it despite concerns about the wording of an eventual law. Lawmakers in the 577-seat house who opposed the resolution abstained.