July 2005

8/22/05 — Michael Graham was fired.
—————————————————————————–

Michael Graham’s instincts were correct. He was suspended for calling Islam a terror organization. As long as the radio station isn’t run by the government, WMAL is within its rights to can him, as weak-willed as it may be.

Read the column that started it all.

Michael and I chatted briefly at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, and I was impressed that he knew who was. He’ll emerge from this wiser, bolder, and richer. Can’t wait for his book.

I support you 100 percent, Michael.

Contact WMAL and tell them what you think.

(Hat tip: Michelle Malkin)

Update: A commenter says his e-mail to WMAL bounced back. Use this contact form. The switchboard telephone number is 202-686-3100, programming is 202-895-2327.

Update II (7/30): Michael Graham speaks.

Update III (7/31): Attention new readers and commenters: Please read the comment policy. I blame the fundamental misunderstanding of the First Amendment on our shoddy government schools.

{ 117 comments }

8/22/05 — Michael Graham was fired.
—————————————————————————–

“Islam is a terror organization.”

The Roots of Islamic Terrorism:

The nature of the terrorist threat is unambiguously Islamic and is not so much a deviation from Muslim tradition as an appeal to it. Al Qaeda’s ideology draws on two traditions to legitimize itself: one classical, the other modern.

Regarding classical Islam, the oft-quoted remark that Islam is a religion of peace is false. It is historically illiterate to claim that war is foreign to Islam and it is theologically uninformed to argue that jihad is merely a personal inner struggle with no external military correlate.

The Crisis of Islam book review:

A Middle East expert, Lewis proffers that Americans are puzzled by this venomous sentiment because their general level of historical knowledge is “abysmally low.” Muslims, however, are defined by their history: who they are, where they came from, and what they perceive as God’s purpose for their lives. “For [Osama] bin Laden, his declaration of war against the United States marks the resumption of the struggle for religious dominance of the world that began in the seventh century,” Lewis writes.

For example, to the Middle East, President Bush is just a successor in a long line of rulers — from the Byzantine emperors of Constantinople, the Holy Roman Emperors in Vienna, Queen Victoria, and other European imperialists — who are serious impediments to the divinely ordained expansion of Islam, merely delaying its inevitable conquest. Without understanding how important history is to followers of Islam and how important it should be to Americans, the confusion will continue.

Update: Brits turned down our request to arrest one of the London bombing suspects a month ago. See ThoughtsOnline.

{ 123 comments }

As ridiculous as it sounds, NYC is searching one out of every five subway riders for explosives in their backpacks. Any reasonable person with an ounce of common sense knows how imbecilic this is, including Mayor Bloomberg. What this PR stunt proves is that image is more important than protecting innocent commuters and making sure their bodies remain intact.

Just as long as the random searches are “fair” and non-discriminatory, Mayor Bloomberg, in his own mind, is doing his job.

When the NYC subway system is bombed and body parts are flung here, there, and everywhere, I hope the ghost of Lady Macbeth pays Bloomberg a visit. She can tell him that no amount of soap will wash the blood off his hands.

(A personal account)

Ann Althouse: “Currently, the official search procedure is to randomly select one person out of five — the old as well as the young, females as much as males. Actually, I find it hard to believe that they aren’t also noticing men with recently shaved beards and smelling of flower water. But isn’t it better not to mention they are?”

The dousing of flower water is prep work for “Paradise,” where they’ll have eternal sex with virgins.

Update: The object in the photo is what awaits NYC commuters as the cops frisk little old ladies while waving through young Muslim men of Middle Eastern descent carrying backbacks: nail bombs.

{ 25 comments }

This man still refuses to apologize, and adds:

Many critics of my statements have characterized them as “offensive,” and indeed they may have offended some. But in this battle against fundamentalist Islam, I am hardly preoccupied with political correctness, or who may or may not be offended. Indeed, al-Qaeda cares little if the Western world is “offended” by televised images of hostages beheaded in Iraq, subway bombings in London, train attacks in Madrid, or Americans jumping to their death from the Twin Towers as they collapsed. (Source)

Twin Towers? What the heck is he talking about…oh, he means the attack on our soil eons ago! Anybody remember that???

Mr. Tancredo, support you 100 percent I do. (Yoda impression)

(Hat tip: View from the Right)

Related post: Tom Tancredo Refuses to Apologize

{ 59 comments }

I’ve coined a new age-of-terrorism phrase: The Granny Grab.

Because race/religious profiling of young men of Middle Eastern descent is “racist,” “too expensive,” and “impossible anyway.”

Tony Blair said he wasn’t going to let Islamofascists change the way “we” live or how “we” fight the war on terrorism. If he doesn’t think old women being felt up in airports (while illegal Mexicans and Middle Eastern men work on airplane engines) reflects a different way of living, his head is buried under a mound of garbage, just like George Bush’s.

Backbone, Tony, or just more PC huffing and puffing? The first law you need to change is the one that allows the government to give taxpayers’ money to unemployed young men of Middle Eastern descent with criminal records. That might be helpful.

The “headophobes” strike again. What bigots, man! What did anyone’s head ever do to them?

Update: MSM are more interested in Gitmo “torture” than stories like this.

{ 11 comments }