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WMAL has been pressured by CAIR, a radical Islam apologist organization cleverly disguised as the NAACP for Arab Americans, to discipline Graham for his opinions, even though his opinions are what WMAL apparently hired him for. Graham has this posting on his website: "First, CAIR just wanted me suspended....Now that I have been, they've taken the next step and now want me fired. Is anyone surprised? When you encourage the enemies of freedom, they always come back for more."

Graham's criticism of Islam, and Islamic leaders, is that while every non-Muslim political leader in earshot is projecting an uber-PC admiration for Islam's origins as a "Religion of Peace," actual Muslim leaders are sticking the knife right in our soft, Western ribs, and then twisting it . . . publicly.

For example: (1.)Mohammed Naseem, described as the most senior Islamic cleric in Birmingham, England, denied that Muslims were in any way responsible for the London bombings (despite video-tape and other police surveillance evidence), called Tony Blair a liar and declared that Muslims "all over the world have never heard of an organization called al Qaeda." (2.) Muslim scholars in the US and Canada issued a fatwa against terrorism, but pointedly refused to name specific organizations, such as Hamas, Al Qaeda, the Palestine Liberation Front or Fatah. They also neglected to mention known terrorist leaders by name, such as Osama Bin Laden or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- both Muslims, and both vocally strident in using Islam as a rallying cry against Western civilian targets. Without holding specific organizations and individuals responsible for the terrorism that Muslim scholars are claiming to oppose, "terrorism" becomes a mere catchword by which they can backpedal to include the Israeli army and the U.S. Military when it proves convenient to save face during Friday prayers at the local Mosque. Case in point: Britain's largest Sunni Muslim group stated, when issuing their fatwa against terrorism, "Muslims should not use atrocities being committed in Palestine and Iraq to justify attacks such as those in London" -- you see, because, really, they think the attacks in London are justified, it was just a shame that Muslim suicide bombers carried them out. (3.) Muzammil H. Siddiqi, former president of the Islamic Society of North America and main spokesman for the Fiqh Council in their highly publicized fatwa against “terrorism,” openly threatened the United States with violence if it continued its support of Israel back in 2000, and praised suicide bombers in a 1995 speech, while In 1998, Fiqh Council (you know, the same Fiqh council that just issued a fatwa against terrorism) member Sheikh Muhammad al-Hanooti, gave a speech calling for jihad against the United States and the United Kingdom, saying that “Allah will curse the Americans and British” and “Allah, the curse of Allah will become true on the infidel Jews and on the tyrannical Americans.” (4.) At a meeting of the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, the International Humanist and Ethical Union tried to call for a condemnation of suicide bombing, only to be disrupted by Islamic members of the Sub-Commission who objected to the speech as “an attack on Islam." (5.) Omar Ahmad, Co-founder of CAIR, outlines his objectives for American Islamic relations in this way: "Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting, keeping Mosques open so anyone can come and learn about Islam. If you choose to live here, you have a responsibility to deliver the message of Islam ... Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."

Are you getting the picture?

Michael Graham's description of Islam is controversial, but should he have been suspended from a Western media channel for criticizing Islamic leaders and their tacit support of terrorism against the West simply because of complaints from an American Muslim PR organization with several prominent members under investigation for alleged terrorist funding and ties to terrorist groups?

I think not.

Michael Graham's exact statement was this: ""Sadly, as it is constituted today, Islam IS a terrorist organization, but the good news is that the majority of Muslims--who don't support terror--can change that and take back their religion." This is the message that CAIR doesn't like, and that CAIR, (again, an organization which has prominent members under investigation for alleged ties to terrorism) wants to see suppressed.

We in the West do not live under sharia, we do not have to speak carefully about our religious institutions, and we certainly don't have to show respect to a repressive and blood soaked culture that hasn't earned it. Islam may or may not be a terrorist organization, but it's not up to CAIR and its jihad tainted membership to make that decision for the rest of us. I, for one, vote to keep loudmouths like Michael Graham on the air and in our face. It's healthy, it's challenging and it's certainly more provocative than Howard "show me your boobies oh you're smokin' hot" Stern.

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