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Posted on 07/29/2005 4:49:49 AM PDT by ExitPurgamentum
Jewish World Review July 29, 2005
/ 22 Tamuz, 5765
JWR COLUMNIST OFF THE AIR AFTER ABC/DISNEY IS INTIMIDATED BY CAIR
By Binyamin L. Jolkovsky
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Yesterday Michael Graham wrote in his column: "I take no pleasure in saying it. It pains me to think it. I could very well lose my job in talk radio over admitting it. But it is the plain truth: Islam is a terror organization."
And then his fears came true.
Hours after his column appeared here, Graham, a mid-morning talker at WMAL in Washington, D.C., was suspended without pay pending an investigation.
Graham's column and previous on-air comments were not the first time he's had a run-in with CAIR.
In an April, 2004 column, he details other attempts by the Muslim group to silence him.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
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Jewish World Review April 21, 2004 / 30 Nissan, 5764
THEY HATE ME! THEY REALLY HATE ME!
By Michael Graham
Our columnist has PO-ed CAIR. Why not send him a note?
http://www.jewishworldreview.com | "Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you." — Yassir Arafat.
The headline on the email read "Get Someone Else To Start Your Car." If it hadn't been from a co-worker, I would have deleted it as some bizarre, auto-repair spam.
Instead, I read the attached message, a press release from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Washington, DC. Right away, a few words jumped out at me:
"Anti-Muslim." "Spewing hate." "Bigotry." Oh, and one more: "Michael Graham."
CAIR has just launched a national media campaign, the clumsily named "Hate Hurts America," to combat what they consider "hate radio by conservative talk show hosts." Their press release urges national action and unceasing diligence by Muslims against the "bigotry" of radio, but in the entire three-page document, CAIR only mentions one talk-show host by name.
Lucky me.
Actually, I do consider myself lucky, because I believe that our true character is revealed by the quality of our enemies, and I couldn't be prouder to count the terrorist-coddling CAIR as a foe. I am also lucky because CAIR is so bad at what they do.
What CAIR does is try to portray all criticism of all Muslims everywhere as bigotry. They singled me out because I said on the air (and have said in print as well) that Islam is a uniquely dangerous religion, that the religion itself needs a reformation much like those experienced by Catholicism and Mormonism, and that the one distinguishing attribute of "moderate" Muslims is their reluctance to publicly criticize the actions of the Islamo-fascist extremists who continue to spread terror.
Now, you might agree with me or you might disagree with me, but this is hardly bigotry. "Stating the obvious" is a more apt description. But any criticism from an infidel like yours truly is unbearable to the folks at CAIR, and so they've launched their attack:
"Graham recently made an implicit call for violence against Muslims," CAIR said in their press release. "He said: 'I don't wanna say we should kill 'em all [Muslims], but unless there's reform [within Islam], there aren't a lot of other solutions that work in the ground struggle for survival.'"
Now, you don't have to be a literary critic to see that the folks at CAIR have added a significant word to that quote on their own ("[Muslims]") and that they've added it to a rather significant sentence, "kill 'em all." The reason they had to add the word "Muslim" to begin with is, of course, because I didn't say it.
What I said was that I wanted some solution to the struggle between civilization and the Islamists (the violent, Muslim extremists) other than their obliteration. Unfortunately, at that point in my conversation, I couldn't think of one.
What's worse is that I still can't.
Islam has a problem, a problem with the Islamo-fascists who I'm told by folks like CAIR don't represent "real" Muslims. I point out this problem, and my frustration with the fact that so-called "moderate Muslims" appear to be doing so little to solve it, and I'm a hate-spewing bigot. Meanwhile, mosques in "moderate" countries like Egypt and Pakistan continue to support suicide bombers or, like Iran and Saudi Arabia, give money to terror groups like Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyr Brigades.
Apparently being a "moderate" Muslim means you only want to kill the Jews.
Then again, what to expect from an organization like CAIR whose executive director, Nihad Awad, has openly expressed support for Hamas and Hizbullah? Or from a group that takes money from the whacko Wahabbis of Saudi Arabia, with their extreme view of Islam and the limited rights of women, homosexuals and non-Muslims?
In fact, the same week CAIR was trying to get me thrown off the air, one of their former employees, Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer, was being thrown in jail. "Ismail" got 20 years in prison for his illegal, terror-related activities in the Virginia Jihad Network, a network he's admitted forming here in the US after September 11th.
What's so frustrating to me is that, if CAIR were truly a moderate organization dedicated to reform, we would be fast friends, not enemies. I think I'm like the vast majority of Americans who know relatively little about Islam, aren't particularly interested in learning much more, but would like to see normal, decent Muslims lead the charge to take back their faith from the Osamas and al-Sadrs and Yassins and Wahabbists of the world. Instead you've got the spokesman for CAIR explaining on my radio show why they support the good Hamas, not the bad one.
If the "Muslim" Martin Luther King appeared today, American Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Scientologists, atheists, Rotarians and even some Democrats would rise to cheer him and offer arms and treasure for his cause. We want the world to be safe. We don't want to live in constant fear that our neighbor's faith is going to make him dangerous to all who don't share it. In other words, we want the Muslim religion to be a little less, well, religious.
Does anyone know the Islamic term for "Unitarian?"
Darn. There goes that "hate speech" again.
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The only thing I might have watched on ABC was sports. Oh well, those were the good old days.
>> For those of us that believe in Michael Graham's right to free speech, please support him now.
Only leftists have the right to free speech in America.
I love his show, I listen to it most mornings when I can. There is no way he should be taken off the air over his remarks.
Having said that, he needs to understand how his anti-Islam statements play when heard by the members of the military and their families who are working so hard to build a free and prosperous Iraq. He needs to take another look at the pictures of Iraqi muslims voting, as well as the numerous successes we're having over there before he makes these sorts of statements. Saying that "islam is a terrorist organization" does a tremendous disservice to our efforts in Iraq.
So I disagree with what he said, but I demand he continues to have the right to say it.
Dear SoftballMominVA,
I think that a lot of folks must be registering their perspectives with WMAL. When I went to fill out their on-line "contact us" form, the response time for the process was dog-slow, and failed the first time. Usually a sign that the traffic is more than the server can stand. A good sign.
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This ping list is not author-specific for articles I'd like to share. Some for perfect moral clarity, some for provocative thoughts; or simply interesting articles I'd hate to miss myself. (I don't have to agree with the author 100% to feel the need to share an article.) I will try not to abuse the ping list and not to annoy you too much, but on some days there is more of the good stuff that is worthy of attention. You can see the list of articles I pinged to lately on my page.
Besides this one, I keep separate PING lists for my favorite authors Victor Davis Hanson and Orson Scott Card, and occasionally for David Warren and Lee Harris. You are welcome in or out, just freepmail me (and note which PING list you are talking about).
Never understood this type of criticism from the right. Our views should be able to stand up to opposing views. Show both sides and let the left look dumber every time they open their communist mouth.
they don't CAIR about free speech ping.
Never heard of Graham, until this week. CAIR has just made him famous. LOL!!! Thanx CAIR!!!
Here is the (I don't)CAIR "action alert."
They have kindly provided all the contact information you need to call in support of Michael Graham!!
Let your conscience be your guide!
Makes you wonder about the definition of the word "convince" doesn't it?
I was appalled to hear about this this morning during my long commute in to work. I've already sent in my two-cents worth of opinion to 630's spineless management, and I hope they get an earful today from Michael's listeners and their advertisers.
OOPS! Here it is: "convince" is a $183 ticket!
From: http://www.sptimes.com/2005/07/27/Neighborhoodtimes/Cited_by_Pinellas_Par.shtml
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"Allen's fight is not only with Islamic terrorists, it's also with Pinellas Park's code enforcement department, which cited him for having the toilet in his yard before the sign was put on it.
Allen said he thinks the citation was a bit of selective enforcement because he has recently appeared at council meetings and criticized the city. "The code Nazis are on me like stink on poo poo," Allen said.
Allen, who received a $183 ticket for the toilet, said code enforcement has "tortured and harassed (me) even more than the people over in Gitmo" for speaking out once in a while.
Gustafson said that code enforcement had not singled out Allen.
"Oh, come on," Gustafson said. "Look at his yard. Come on. It's on a main street. (It's) not hard to see. Just go by his house."
But now that the toilet has become a political statement, the city will likely leave it alone.
"You're allowed to have freedom of speech," Gustafson said. But if it reverts to a mere toilet, "we'll probably pick it up."
yup , yer correct-a-mundo , and I'll let the sponsors also know that we talk to ALL the families in our neighborhood as well as school
How?
Hasn't it been proven many times over that the statement is absolutely factual?
Who is it that is unconvinced by indictments and prison terms?
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