WMAL Suspends Talk-Show Host for Comment on Islam

Washington Post

July 29, 2005

Radio talk-show host Michael Graham was suspended by station WMAL-AM yesterday for repeatedly describing Islam as a "terrorist organization" on his program.

Graham said he has been ordered off the Washington station, without pay, for an indefinite period while the station investigates the comments that drew complaints from a Muslim group, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Officials at WMAL, which is owned by the Walt Disney Co., had initially declined to take disciplinary action against Graham. However, WMAL President and General Manager Chris Berry said last night that Graham would be suspended for making statements that "crossed the line."

"We do not condone his position and believe his statements were irresponsible," Berry said in a statement.

Being the entertainers of children for so long - one would expect Disney to take a stand against these teachings:

"If you can’t beat them - ACCUSE them" {is a guaranteed reaction every time a Muslim voice is confronted before a non-Muslim audience. The most infamous accusation of all ? 'Taking the Koran's writings out of context' {which is an insult to all logic.

Graham, 42, said on his mid-morning program on Monday that the fault for recent acts of terrorism lies not with Islamic radicals alone but also with Muslims generally because religious leaders and followers have tacitly supported extreme elements. "The problem is not extremism," Graham told listeners. "The problem is Islam." He also said, "We are at war with a terrorist organization named Islam."

CAIR denounced the comments as "hate-filled" and asked its members to contact the station's advertisers to express their dismay. Several hundred people across the country sent e-mails to the station and some of its advertisers, said Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR's communications director.

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future...But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."  Ibrahim Hooper {How the 'Michael Grahams of the radio' can powerfully challenge CAIR} at the bottom]

"I think this action is long overdue and appropriate," Hooper said of Graham's suspension. "I think it's a testament to the determination of individual Muslims who contacted the station and its advertisers to say Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bigotry are unacceptable." One advertiser, Moore Cadillac Hummer, wrote a letter to CAIR denouncing Graham's statements but did not say it would pull its ads, he said.

Graham, whose program is part of WMAL's lineup of conservative talk shows, remained unapologetic and defiant. "I honestly don't know what Disney is investigating me for, unless it's for doing a compelling talk show that gets people's attention," he said. "I thought that was my job."

He also said, "If fighting for free speech and for the truth in the war on terrorism means getting fired by some corporate suits at ABC Disney who can't stand up for free speech -- so be it. But I will not recant."

However, station sources say Graham is unlikely to be fired and will be back on the air after the current controversy cools down.

Weapons for the radio voices who rightfully and courageously refuse to accept the deep-denial that others - such as CAIR - want to force upon all of society:

 

Preach these - regularly:

 

"Oh ye who believe"....

 

004.101 When ye travel through the earth, there is no blame on you if ye shorten your prayers, for fear the [Muslims] May attack you: For the [Muslims] are unto you open enemies. {That would include Mecca and Palestine]

 

005.041 [Muslims] - men who will listen to any lie

 

005.051 O ye who believe! take not the - [Muslims] - for your friends and protectors {authorities]: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them for friendship is of them.

 

009.005 fight and slay the [Muslims] ''''wherever'''' ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.

002.216 Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing [war] which is good for you and that ye love a thing [peace] which is bad for you?

009.039 Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place.

047.004 Therefore, when ye meet the [Muslims] in fight, smite at their necks. [Behead them!]

What says Hooper?

Hate Speech? or "Good education"?

Let the 'Michael Grahams of the radio' tell the Truth - but with a new honest 'spin'

What's good for the goose - is good for the gander - No?

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