I am surprised that Vince McMahon, CEO of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) would suspend the best character that the WWE has produced in years: Muhammad Hassan.

Muhammad Hassan came into the WWE as a man who hated America. He was upset at what he felt was “racist” towards himself and his fellow companion, Daivari. He would unleash a barrage of anger towards the WWE fans for being hateful and prejudice against him for being an Arab-American. Hassan would take the microphone and just let those fans have it. He would scream and yell about how upset he was and how America and its citizens looked at him the wrong way and treated him like a criminal when was just an innocent man working to make a living like any other citizen. Hassan would disparage America, calling every WWE fan a disgrace and a loser. The WWE fans ate this up. They loved Hassan as the “bad” guy or “heel” in wrestling terms. Every time Hassan stepped into ring of a WWE event, the fans were rabid. They could not wait to see Hassan and boo him out the building. The fan were like a “bunch of wild dogs” to use the phrase from hall of fame New York Giants Linebacker Lawrence Taylor.

The fans were crazy for Hassan. They paid good money to see someone, anyone, beat Hassan to a bloody pulp for America. On most nights, The WWE fans would get to see some of their heroes like Hulk Hogan, John Cena and Shawn Michaels make Hassan eat his hateful words with a good natured WWE-style butt kickin’. The fans were ecstatic to see the immortal and WWE hall of fame inductee Hulk Hogan giving Hassan the big boot sending him crashing out of the ring and into the concrete floor at this year’s Wrestlemania. The fans of WWE Champion John Cena, the “chain gang” as Cena likes to call them, were at their feet going crazy seeing their champ destroy Hassan and his pesky sidekick Daivari in a recent episode of Raw. Fans went crazy when yet another WWE legend, HBK Shawn Michaels, superkicked Hassan.

Muhammad Hassan was a great character with so much potential. This was a wrestler that the fans absolutely loathed. This was a character that we wanted to root against but we also wanted to see. Hassan just invoked that much emotion with the WWE fan base that it was real.

The WWE hit a homerun with the Muhammad Hassan character that they could do no wrong. Incorrect. The very last appearance of Muhammed Hassan was on a Thursday episode of WWE Smackdown where he and several “soldiers” dressed in hooded mask attacked the Undertaker. It was two days after the terrorist attacks on London. UPN received angry phone calls from viewers and told the WWE that they do not want Muhammad Hassan on the UPN network ever again. Unfortunately the WWE mixed sports entertainment with real life and it did not mix.