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CAIR targets DC radio station for Cal Thomas comments
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Posted on 07/03/2007 7:14:18 AM PDT by Gopher Broke

CAIR Views Conservative Commentary As 'Incitement' By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor July 03, 2007

(CNSNews.com) - An Islamic advocacy group is urging its supporters to call a Washington, D.C., radio station to "express your concerns about the Islamophobic attitudes" expressed by conservative columnist and author Cal Thomas.

In a commentary on news-talk WTOP radio Monday morning, Thomas discussed the car-bomb terror attacks recently thwarted in the United Kingdom. The eight Muslims arrested in connection with the plot include several physicians.

"How much longer should we allow people from certain lands, with certain beliefs to come to Britain and America and build their mosques, teach hate, and plot to kill us?" Thomas asked.

He also compared Muslims to a "slow spreading cancer" that must be stopped.

In its message to supporters, the Council on American-Islamic Relations described Thomas''s remarks as "incitement." The message included the name and work telephone number of WTOP's vice president of programming.

In recent years, CAIR has issued a number of "incitement watches" which CAIR''s critics view as efforts to squelch free speech.

On Tuesday, July 17, CAIR plans to host a panel discussion in Washington on "the increasing anti-Muslim rhetoric within the conservative movement in the United States."

The panelists will include David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, and Parvez Ahmed, CAIR chairman.

The discussion will focus "on the negative impact of [anti-Muslim] views on religious tolerance in America and on relations with the Muslim world," CAIR said.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: cair; calthomas; censorship; dhimmitude; enemywithin; globaljihad; infiltration; islam; islamofacist; talkradio; wtop
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

“It’s not a free speech issue, but I will call with my support.”

Why do you not think so?


61 posted on 07/03/2007 10:33:05 AM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: berstbubble; milford421; Biggirl

“Cal Thomas broadcast” to warn the countryside of the relatively small number of armed “moslems” that were coming to attack and conquer. These “fanatics” made up a small percentage of the “moslems” that were in the US at the time...........

Corrected.

Sigh, I wish I knew how to draw the lines through the words and correct it properly. But you get the picture.


62 posted on 07/03/2007 10:33:15 AM PDT by 66-442hot (It isn't smart to kill the golden goose........)
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To: Gopher Broke

We have to start finding things to sue CAIR about. This isn’t about damage but a strategy to suppress dissent.


63 posted on 07/03/2007 10:34:09 AM PDT by Tribune7 (More Americans die each day than watch Chris Matthews)
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To: Gopher Broke

We have to start finding things to sue CAIR about. This isn’t about damage but a strategy to suppress dissent.


64 posted on 07/03/2007 10:34:12 AM PDT by Tribune7 (More Americans die each day than watch Chris Matthews)
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To: suspects

MG, it sounds familiar, doesn’t it?


65 posted on 07/03/2007 10:34:29 AM PDT by Salo
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To: 66-442hot

The majority of us clearly get the picture.


66 posted on 07/03/2007 10:36:15 AM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: Gopher Broke

“He also compared Muslims to a “slow spreading cancer” that must be stopped.”

I agree with Cal so chalk me up as an “Islamophobic”.


67 posted on 07/03/2007 10:38:55 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: milford421
WTOP decides what will be on their station. They base their programming decisions on what their listeners want. If the listeners don't like what Cal said, WTOP won't have him on anymore. That's business.

If there were a law that required WTOP to fire Cal for saying these things, that would be censorship (of the 1st Amendment kind).

68 posted on 07/03/2007 10:40:16 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (To make a conservative angry, lie to them. To make a liberal angry, tell them the truth.)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

“WTOP decides what will be on their station. They base their programming decisions on what their listeners want. If the listeners don’t like what Cal said, WTOP won’t have him on anymore. That’s business.”

You’re absolutely right on that.

“If there were a law that required WTOP to fire Cal for saying these things, that would be censorship (of the 1st Amendment kind).”

Right on that too. CAIR and its’ ilk would impede on this right. They are pushing “anti-hate” speech laws that I believe clearly violate the 1st Amendment.

Glad you contacted the station.


71 posted on 07/03/2007 2:07:40 PM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: Gopher Broke

Yesterday there was a thread about Keene as a token pro-Islamacist conservative, together with Grover Norquist, and their influence in the NRA. Not too sure Keene is in touch with his ‘base’ these days. So it’s not surprising he’d be on the CAIR panel.


72 posted on 07/03/2007 2:12:10 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: berstbubble
berstbubble
Since Apr 15, 2007


Obviously narrow minded, bigotted remarks made by a cowardly spineless simp
Didn't take long to show your true colors.
73 posted on 07/03/2007 2:13:57 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: G Larry

There was a thread recently about CAIR’s membership falling around 90% in the past several years. THey are kept alive by monied interests in the Middle East and wealthy Muslims in the US, and by the MSM. Not unlike NOW on the feminist front. NO real serious membership, but LOTS of face time on tv and ink in the press.


74 posted on 07/03/2007 2:19:11 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: berstbubble
I see we got a troll in our presence.
75 posted on 07/03/2007 8:25:17 PM PDT by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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To: Gopher Broke

Radical Islam is an insane murder cult; moderate Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West.


76 posted on 07/03/2007 8:48:16 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: berstbubble

Most Germans in 1944 were just fine volk. Only a few “bad eggs” in the SS and Gestapo gave them a bad name.

Still, we had to bomb the crap out of all of them, to get the “bad Germans” to stop.

So when we have a modern enemy who screams “ALLAH AKBAR” while blowing up women and chlldren in a dozen contries from the Philippines to Nigeria to Scotland.....it’s a little hard to escape the obvious conclusion.


77 posted on 07/03/2007 8:51:59 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: dennisw

You ever notice how Moses and Jesus went up on mountain tops to talk to God, and Mad Mo went down into a bat cave to speak to his lord?

Hmmmm.....makes you wonder WHO Mad Mo was speaking with.

Somebody who always told him “go for it Mo!” You want more wives? Check. Rape in war okay? Check. Kill infidels? Check. 12 year old wife? Check.

What ever worldly think Mad Mo wanted, his dark lord of the bad cave allowed him.


78 posted on 07/03/2007 8:54:40 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: berstbubble
...but if all muslims are treated with the bigotry and hatred that THomas is spreading, that will certainly change.

I don't think he is treating them with bigotry and hatred. Cal Thomas is actually being kind to the Muslims by pointing out their behavior, so that people can notice that and help them change it. If I were a Muslim, I would appreciate this. Since you are not a Muslim, you are incorrectly offended by this.

79 posted on 07/03/2007 9:08:43 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: Travis McGee
You ever notice how Moses and Jesus went up on mountain tops to talk to God, and Mad Mo went down into a bat cave to speak to his lord?

Hmmmm.....makes you wonder WHO Mad Mo was speaking with.

Some say Mo was epileptic and his phony revelations are the hallucinations from seizures. And yes, these revelations came from his cave

Somebody who always told him “go for it Mo!” You want more wives? Check. Rape in war okay? Check. Kill infidels? Check. 12 year old wife? Check.

A leftist will then say to you that the Hebrews and their prophets did the same in the Old Testament.
But this is the difference
The Hebrew prophets were never called perfect men
We are supposed to learn from them and their lives, not to slavishly emulate their lives
The wars of the Hebrews are time and place specific while all of Muhammad's wars apply to today and all times and places for that matter
Muslims claim Muhammad was the perfect man whose life should be emulated by all mankind
That his wars and Jihads should be emulated by all Muslims. The Jihadist Muslims will tell you this to your face
Today's Muslim warmongers refer to Muhammad's wars all the time, refer to the example of the (false) prophet as to why they are making war.
I've seen Iraqi Sunnis justify mass slaughter of Shiites this way when the call Shiites polytheists and apostates

What ever worldly think Mad Mo wanted, his dark lord of the bad cave allowed him.

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80 posted on 07/03/2007 9:47:15 PM PDT by dennisw
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