Posted on 12/24/2003 2:30:51 PM PST by webber
ISSUE: According to a report from CNSNews.com, "General Electric, in response to Muslim complaints, has decided to pull its lighting advertisements from Paul Harvey's syndicated radio show, at least for the time being."
On Dec. 4, the 84-year-old Harvey was describing cockfighting in Iraq when he made the following comment on-air: "Add to the thirst for blood a religion which encourages killing, and it is entirely understandable if Americans came to this bloody party unprepared."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim "civil rights group", objected to the phrase "a religion which encourages killing," and it demanded an apology. About a week later, Harvey issued an apologetic statement through a fill-in host.
And who is this CAIR? According to terrorism expert Daniel Pipes, CAIR "presents itself as just another civil-rights group... In reality, CAIR is something quite different. For starters, it's on the wrong side in the war on terrorism."
CAIR has said that depicting Osama bin Laden as "the sworn enemy" is "offensive to Muslims"; when President Bush closed the "Holy Land Foundation" for collecting money he said was "used to support the Hamas terror organization," CAIR decried his action as "unjust" and "disturbing"; and the FBI's former chief of counterterrorism, Steven Pomerantz, has even concluded that "CAIR, its leaders and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups."
And it's THAT group that is now attacking Paul Harvey for a single on-air comment... and what's worse, General Electric is listening to them!
It's time for GE to listen to YOU instead.
ACTION ITEM: Paul Harvey is a true-blue, red-blooded American patriot, and a long-standing icon on American airwaves. Shouldn't hard-working, patriotic Americans like you and I stand up for him when he's attacked by radical groups like CAIR?
A GE spokesman was quoted as saying that the company hasn't yet decided whether to resume its advertising on Harvey's syndicated radio show, which has 24 million weekly listeners on some 1,600 radio stations in this country and around the world.
So, we've set up a quick and easy way for you to have your voice heard LOUD and CLEAR in defense of Paul Harvey. Go to our site below to send a message to GE, urging that company to ignore the complaints of radical groups like CAIR and keep supporting Harvey:
NOTE: If you prefer, you can also call GE's Public Affairs office at:
203-373-3476 to voice your opinion.
Be sure to forward this Alert to everyone you know who doesn't want to see patriotic Americans like Paul Harvey attacked by radical groups like CAIR.
Thank you!
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Go here to send Paul Harvey an email:
http://www.paulharvey.com/email_form.shtml
Go here to send GE an email:
Gary Sheffer
General manager, Public Affairs and Employee Communications
(203) 373-3476
gary.sheffer@corporate.ge.com
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A pack them up and ship'em out bttt.
Of course, GE does have extensive business interests in the Middle East, stories about two of them follow:
•Drilling equipment
•Aircraft engines
However, I highly doubt Harvey's statements would have any bearing on those. To my knowledge, Paul Harvey does not have any broadcast affiliates in the Middle East. Further, if that were the reason, the interests themselves would complain, not CAIR.
We have a huge problem in this country if foreign terrorist mouthpiece groups can muscle corporate America the same way Jesse Jackson does.
Now if Mr. Harvey had specified that Islam encourages the killing of Jews, that would have been more difficult to refute, in light of the extensive historic and current documentation on the subject. Indeed, such encouragement comes straight from Mohammed's mouth.
The message from CAIR is clear: Killing Jews and infidels is one thing, but killing animals and gambling are another thing entirely, and something they will not stand for.
Sheesh....................
Gary Sheffer General Manager, Public Affairs and Employee Communications (203) 373-3476 gary.sheffer@corporate.ge.com
Please sent Mr. Sheffer your nomination for the new GE ad slogan. I'm on record as voting for 4, though 7 could be adapted for their Public Affairs handbook.
1--"Believers, take neither Jews nor Christians for your friends." (Surah 5:51)
2-"Fight against such as those to whom the Scriptures were given [Jews and Christians]...until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued." (Surah 9:29)
3-"The Christians say: The Christ is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them." (Sura 9:30)
4-"The Day of Resurrection will not arrive until the Moslems make war against the Jews and kill them, and until a Jew hiding behind a rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: 'Oh Moslem, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'" (Sahih Bukhari 004.52.176)
5-"Try as you may, you cannot treat all your wives impartially." (Surah 4:3)
6-"Men take authority over women... As for those who are disobedient, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them." (Surah 4:34)
7-"Believers, do not approach your prayers when you are drunk, but wait till you can grasp the meaning of your words..." (Surah 4:43)
From Paul Harvey's biography: Mr. Harvey moved to Hawaii in 1940 to cover the U.S. Navy as it began to concentrate its fleet in the Pacific. He was returning to the United States from that assignment when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Paul Harvey enlisted into the Army Air Corps, where he served until 1944.
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