Michael Graham, conservative writer and radio talk show host, has been suspended from his job at WMAL in DC without pay for comments he made on the radio and in a piece he wrote for Jewish World Review in which he harshly criticized Islam. La Shawn Barber linked up to the piece yesterday. In it, Graham wrote:
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.
For years, I’ve been trying to give the world’s Muslim community the benefit of the doubt, along with the benefit of my typical-American’s complete disinterest in their faith. Before 9/11, I knew nothing about Islam except the greeting “asalaam alaikum,” taught to me by a Pakistani friend in Chicago.
Immediately after 9/11, I nodded in ignorant agreement as President Bush assured me that “Islam is a religion of peace.”
But nearly four years later, nobody can defend that statement. And I mean “nobody.”
Like Michelle Malkin, I don’t consider all Muslims terrorists nor do I believe that Islam is a terrorist organization. But Graham (who perhaps could have worded his piece a little better) wrote what a lot of people (and I’d bet a good deal of his listeners) are feeling right now towards Islam. It’s a shame that instead of letting him stick around to defend his comments, the station he worked for saw fit to handle this issue in the manner they did.
People in this country are getting beyond fed up that honest people like Michael Graham, who dared speak openly and frankly about his feelings on Islam, are being punished without reason while some imams across the country get to spread hate and ‘death to America’ in their mosques freely. It’s time to stop being politically correct and to start recognizing the enemy we face. How many times does that need to be said?
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Read the book … Infiltration by Paul Sperry. Basically says it all.
Comment by CPLViper @ 7/29/2005 - 5:18 pm
CAIRN complained about Michael Graham to ABC/Disney who own WMAL. So what happened to free speech, but than again the people at ABC are so lame. I totally agree with Michael Graham. A recurring theme in the Qur’an: “it is your duty to kill the unbelievers who do not submit to islam”. Peace muslim style. Their stuff is so unbelievable, so people don’t believe it. Muslims count on it.
Comment by Phil Jungbluth @ 7/29/2005 - 8:32 pm
“It’s a shame that instead of letting him stick around to defend his comments, the station he worked for saw fit to handle this issue in the manner they did.”
What kind of defense besides the moronic do you expect?
Comment by actus @ 7/30/2005 - 12:51 am
Here’s a link to an MP3 of his Friday morning show on WMAL, with a guest host –
mms://abcrad.wmod.llnwd.net/a49/external/0102cABAAHQAAAAcDle6yKhvE1c0LnEJnNwFajD8QD92LOnSD/
wmal/aud_archive/MG050729.mp3
http://wmal.com/listingsEntry.asp?ID=323805&PT=630%20WMAL%20On%20Demand
Mark, thanks for the link - for anyone interested in the first link, please copy the first line into your browser, then copy and paste what is right below it beside what you just copied in your browser and hit ‘enter.’ I had to make the link into two lines as it was causing the blog to scroll. –ST
Comment by mark @ 7/30/2005 - 2:59 am
” So because you think the comments are stupid you don’t think the man should have been given a chance to defend himself? Interesting.”
He has a chance to defend himself. Tell him to start a blog.
Comment by actus @ 7/30/2005 - 1:48 pm
Correction: dude has a blog and a domain name:
http://www.michaelgraham.com/
Expect lashawnbarber, michelle malkin, and the general right-wing mobosphere to link to his very nice website. And expect all this attention to point out how he is somehow being silenced by the MSM that is talk AM radio.
Comment by actus @ 7/30/2005 - 2:43 pm
You’re dang right the rightwing ‘mobosphere’ (cute - as if there’s not one on the left) will be giving Michael Graham a lot more attn. Attn. he deserves. But it’s not because of being silenced by the “MSM” it’s because he’s been targeted by an organization who puts up a front about its desires for a ‘harmonious’ relationship between Muslims and people of other faiths but who won’t tell you that they are backed by the same people who support Palestinian suicide bombers. The stench of hypocrisy is almost overwhelming. I think they (CAIR) need to worry about their own backyard instead of monitoring a talk radio host’s every word. After all, he’s not the one out there killing people in the name of Allah. That’s what you should be concerned about, actus. But then again to the people out there who support CAIR’s push for MG to be pulled off the air, it’s not really about what he said so much as it is wanting to get a ‘hateful right winger’ off the air, right?
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 7/30/2005 - 9:53 pm
“But then again to the people out there who support CAIR’s push for MG to be pulled off the air, it’s not really about what he said so much as it is wanting to get a ‘hateful right winger’ off the air, right?”
If its about him being hateful then its about what he says. Maybe they’ll make a classical station, DC needs more of those.
Comment by actus @ 7/31/2005 - 8:15 am
Why don’t you tell us if it’s about him being’hateful’ Actus? Is that what it’s about to you guys? The left sure is taking stranger and stranger bed partners these days (CAIR). You completely missed my point, but I’m starting to get used to it.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 7/31/2005 - 10:53 am
“Why don’t you tell us if it’s about him being’hateful’ Actus? Is that what it’s about to you guys?”
I thikn its about the idiocy that he said, which is hateful. I’m sure he’ll be welcome on the internet though.
Comment by actus @ 7/31/2005 - 3:03 pm
Sure it is, actus. Again, you guys keep strange bed fellows these days. That’s ok, though. We’ll keep targeting our anger and frustration on where it needs to be (radical Islam) while you guys focus on doing things like comparing our soldiers actions to the gulag, etc.
It’s a shame you guys can’t direct your anger at the right targets but then again, it’s not surprising, seeing as you can’t seem to channel that anger into election victories, either.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 7/31/2005 - 3:08 pm
” We’ll keep targeting our anger and frustration on where it needs to be (radical Islam)”
Michael Graham would have been much better off if he stuck to talking about radical islam instead of islam in general.
Comment by actus @ 7/31/2005 - 5:05 pm
I sincerely doubt that.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 7/31/2005 - 6:19 pm
“I sincerely doubt that. ”
Seeing as how his problem is that he called islam a terrorist organization . . . .
Comment by actus @ 8/1/2005 - 10:19 am
So? If not that, they’d have found something else.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/1/2005 - 10:27 am
“So? If not that, they’d have found something else.”
The idea that he says other objectionable things isn’t really a saving grace.
Comment by actus @ 8/1/2005 - 1:04 pm
It wasn’t meant to be.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/1/2005 - 1:54 pm