Posted on 01/31/2006 10:40:54 AM PST by laney
LOS ANGELES A Los Angeles radio personality said Monday he would apologize for an on-air skit that made fun of the deaths of hundreds of Muslims, but only if an Islamic civil rights group denounces terrorism and acknowledges Israel's right to exist.
The Council of American Islamic Relations demanded the apology last week after KFI 640 host Bill Handel made fun of the deaths of at least 363 Muslims during a stampede at an annual pilgrimage in Mecca.
According to CAIR, Handel imitated the people screaming and then joked that the Muslims at the pilgrimage should use a helicopter to monitor pilgrimage traffic, as is done with Los Angeles' freeway traffic. On his program Monday, Handel said he would apologize, but only if CAIR agreed to denounce all bombing or attacks where intended victims are innocent citizens, to acknowledge Israeli sovereignty and to verify that the group has never had connections with any terrorist group or sponsor.
If those conditions are met, I'll be more than happy to apologize for offending people, I'll apologize all day long, Handel said in a live 12-minute response to CAIR's complaint. He said the station had received hundreds of letters from all over the world demanding an apology.
CAIR's record is clear. We've had numerous statements denouncing terrorism and all the things he was talking about, said CAIR spokeswoman Sabiha Khan.
She called Handel's conditions a smoke screen for his refusal to take responsibility for his remarks
I think it was a Denmark magazine, not the Dutch.
I think CAIR should be shut down and its members prosecuted (or, better, deported) for their support of Muslim terrorism.
Exactly who made CAIR the spokesman for Muslims in America?
We did, by not producing oil, or standing against OPEC an unlawful cartel, which our own oil comanies benefit from.
Cair can denounce 'terrorism" all day long and sincerely mean it. Any act of violence anywhere, anytime that advances islam, in their ideology, cannot be terrorism. It is jihad which is the highest duty of every muslim, and the only sure-fire, can't-miss way to salvation in the works-based islam.
That's why they can't be specific, other than to regret and deplore the loss of life.
Make no mistake about it: CAIR and its like-minded associations are actively participating in jihad. They provide the deceit that the "prophet" said was part of war (so lying is OK if it advances islam).
Paging Michael Graham.
Hndel was on Daryl Ankarlos show this morning in Dallas. The bit was hilarious. The whole thing was to help the Saudis try to control the stampeds that happen every year! He suggested they have a helicopter pilot give Hajj reports. "Theres a camel broken down over by the pillers. Expect a back up all the way to....." Too damn funny. Now he had CAIR buy the Allahs just twisting them to piss them off!
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