Juan Williams is a nationally known news analyst and reporter for the Washington Post and Fox News. His firing was for more than just his comments about Muslims boarding airplanes. He had been working for NPR and Fox news for several years.
He said NPR wanted to get rid of him, perhaps it was his defense of Rush Limbaugh. Maybe his statement that "Michelle Obama has a militant kind of anger" or this quote

WILLIAMS: And let me just tell you this: If you think about liabilities for President Obama that are close to him, Joe Biden’s up there, but Michelle Obama’s right there. Michelle Obama, you know, she’s got this Stokely Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going. If she starts talking, as Mary Katharine suggested, her instinct is to start with this “blame America,” you know, “I’m the victim.” If that stuff starts to come out — http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/27/juan-michelle-stokely/

Those are just three incidents in the past couple of years. It seems like NPR got tired of him and found an excuse to part ways. Juan Williams claims he is a victim of the liberal media. NPR's Vivian Schiller did apologize for her statements regarding Williams should have said that to his psychiatrist.Williams was perfectly content to continue working for both media outlets even though they are completely opposite ends of the idea spectrum.

At one time Juan Williams who is known for his books and ideas on civil rights made this statement about aWashington, DC jeweler refusing to open his doors for black male customers.

THE LAZY MAN'S SUBSTITUTE

Neither black nor white store owners are in business to display the virtues of admitting people of all colors, creeds, and fashions to their stores. They are in business to make money. I would want to take precautions to prevent robbery; I would look closely at people entering the store. The race of a potential customer would be one factor among many to be considered as I girded myself against thieves.

But in Washington and almost all other major cities, blacks do patronize jewelry stores. A jeweler in Beverly Hills who closed his door to heavily bejeweled Mr. T would be foolishly closing his cash register. Unless I am a racist, race and age cannot be the sole deciding factors in calculating whom I will and will not let into my store. And I certainly would not close my door to, say, all young black men - not even to those who are casually dressed and behaving nervously. I would act cautiously in dealing with them, as I would with an antic, strangely dressed white man.

As a cabdriver I would apply the same considerations. Discrimination can be used judiciously. I would certainly exclude one class of people: those who struck me as dangerous. Nervous-looking people with bulges under their jackets would not be picked up; nor would those who looked obviously drunk or stoned. It all comes down to a subjective judgment of what dangerous people look like. This does not necessarily entail a racial judgment. Cabdrivers who don't pick up young black men as a rule are making a poorly informed decision. Racism is a lazy man's substitute for using good judgment.

The elevator question is disingenuous. I suspect you are suggesting that i am a white woman getting into an apartment building elevator with a strange black man. Of course, black women have just as much to fear as white women. Nevertheless, black women living in black neighborhoods ride elevators with black men frequently, and do so without being raped. In this situation and all others, common sense in my constant guard. Common sense becomes racism when skin color becomes a formula for figuring out who is a danger to me.

IT does make you wonder a man who goes from speaking out against racial profiling to defending Rush Limbaugh and a small sample of other missteps. It appears to be NPr getting tired of his misspeaks and moving on. Because I have heard nothing from the NAACP,Al Sharpton, not even Jesse has spoke up about this.