Radio station apologizes for skit (Muslims Offended!)

Minneapolis StarTribune (aka The Red Star) ^ | 10/02/06 | AP News Story

[MplsSteve]

Top 40 radio station KDWB-FM in the Twin Cities has apologized for an on-air comedy skit called "Muslim Jeopardy."

The skit included an announcer using a fake South Asia accent introducing contest categories such as "infamous infidels" and "potent portables," according to the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, which said it had received complaints about the skit.

The skit also included a threat to behead a female host when she got an answer wrong, CAIR said.

[MplsSteve]

I haven't listened to KDWB in at least 15 years. It's gotten all hip-hop. But I find this humorous - especially the part about the beheading.

But this doesn't surprise me that Dave Ryan (the morning show host) would do this.

Comments or opinions - anyone?

[TexasCajun]

The only time you see a happy, smiling, laughing muslim is just before they strap bombs onto their children to kill the infidels!

[TomGuy]

CAIR is whining.

What else is new?

[avacado]

Assimilation into US society requires a sense of humor! They need to assimilate. Every culture has been joked upon.

[MplsSteve]

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[Vasilli22]

CAIR

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[Westbrook]

After what happened in the Amish school house today, I find the Mohammetan whining all the more irritating.

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[Vision]

The skit also included a threat to behead a female host when she got an answer wrong, CAIR said.

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"

--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998

[My2Cents]

Grow some thicker skin, Muzzies.

[sageb1]

"We regret that listeners found the Muslim Jeopardy comedy skit of one of our on-air hosts to be insensitive."

Sounds like they deided to go with the Pope. They don't regret the show. They just regret some found it insensitive. Ok...now that we've passed the point of no return, it's time we start saying what we really mean. "Who gives a flip? Get over it!"

I want to see more of this type of comedy.

[sageb1]

deided = decided

[3AngelaD]

They apologized? What a bunch of wussies. I thought the Hip-Hop dudes considered themselves more macho than that.

[San Jacinto]

Well, you know what they say about those who cannot take a joke.

[Dick Bachert]

How about get the F**K OUT if you can't take the heat??

[Blue Jays]

Hi All-

CAIR is so pathetically predictable I don't even know why they bother commenting on stories in the news. They should just have a seven-word press release stored on their outbound voicemail and as an autoreply on their e-mail system:

"We are offended, God willing. Allah Akbar."

That would save them additional hassle each day, since they're offended by darn near everything coming down the pike.

~ Blue Jays ~

[w1andsodidwe]

Sticks and stones may break my bones

but words shall never hurt me.

However, beheading does hurt at least temporarily.

There is simply no comparison between the words and symbols that offend muslims and the beheadings and homicide bombings that offend me.

[maggief]

The skit included an announcer using a fake South Asia accent introducing contest categories such as "infamous infidels" and "potent portables,"

"I'll take "pork products" for $1000, Alex."

[lesser_satan]

I haven't listened to KDWB in at least 15 years. It's gotten all hip-hop. But I find this humorous - especially the part about the beheading.

I haven't listened to it in at least that long either, but it sounds like a pretty funny bit.

I'm surprised they haven't tried to behead Tom Bernard yet, BTW.

[AZLiberty]

Muslims, you've chosen to live in a free country. Free speech can sometimes be offensive, but get over it, or go away.

[HighlyOpinionated]

If it had been a skit about Pope Benedict XVI, would there have been an apology?













I guess not.

[auntyfemenist]

Yes; GO DAVE!!!!!!

[AZLiberty]

"We are offended, God willing. Allah Akbar."

LOL, especially as I imagine it in a "South Asian" accent.

[Rosemont]

More intimidation from the Cairrorists.

[AZLiberty]

Monty al-Hall: "Do you choose Burkha Number One, Burkha Number Two, or Burkha Number Three?"

[Pusterfuss]

Man I am getting sick of this "muslims are offended" crap. I don't get to the airport often, but when I do I will have a booze bottle or something similar in plain sight.

[bray]

Imagine how many of thes skits are done about Christians per day??

Pray for W and Our Troops

[The Louiswu]

So the new NBC show Studio 60 has references to a comedy skit called Crazy Christians and that is ok?!

[hardworking]

What happened with the car dealership that was going to have Fatwah Friday? I think lambasting the Mooslims with humor is great - it points out the fact that, here in America, Americans like to laugh at theselves. If you can't then you aren't and probably shouldn't be an American. I like the idea of whacking them with humor. Bunch of sour-pusses.

[TexasRepublic]

Those head choppers have no sense of humor! None. Wet blankets, all of them.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

CAIR is offended by free speech.

Tough hop....

[BW2221]

Comedy skit? Sounds like "reality radio" to me.

[mountainlyons]

I am offended that the Muslims are always offended.

[popdonnelly]

I don't like to make fun of other people's religions, but I'm not interested in spending my life in a "straitjacket", either.

[LouAvul]

Assimilation into US society requires a sense of humor! They need to assimilate.

No. They don't need to assimilate. They need to leave. All of them.

[Valin]

BUMP

[YdontUleaveLibs]

I hope someone is watching their back for them. I have heard of radio personalities being attacked and murdered.