‘Hadji Girl’ Marine Silenced?

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The Marine Corps Times has a report on Joshua Belile, whose song “Hadji Girl” aroused the seething of CAIR—and it looks as if Cpl. Belile has been gagged: Record producer: Marine will not record ‘Hajji Girl’. (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.)

Belile, in a June 26 e-mail exchange with conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, which she posted on her Web site, explained the outcome of the investigation.

“Although I was reprimanded for performing such a song while in uniform, my rights as an American, to include the First Amendment, have not been compromised. And as long as I am not performing as a U.S. military representative, to put it bluntly, I can sing whatever I want.

“I am planning on recording and releasing a professionally produced and engineered version of ‘Hajji Girl’ which will be aired on the Mike Church [radio] Show, and will be available for sale through their Web site within the coming weeks. I have decided to take this step to show that I am in full support of every American’s right to his or her own freedom of speech, military or civilian, to include my own.”

But by June 29, Belile was singing a different tune.

Jimm Mosher, record producer and co-owner of Hit Music Incorporated of Spencer, N.C., said his studio is on retainer for radio’s internationally syndicated Mike Church Show, which often produces and features satirical songs. He said Belile was scheduled to record his song there for free until he called and canceled June 29.

James Parker, the show’s senior executive producer, said he tapped Mosher to record Belile “as an independent artist, outside of the Marines, not as a representative of Marines, but as Josh the civilian.” According to Parker, Belile agreed on the day of his exoneration to record “Hajji Girl” with the Mike Church Show Band after being advised by Marine officials that he was free to perform the song “as long as he didn’t do it as a Marine in uniform.”

But by the end of the week, according to Mosher, the Corps’ position had changed.

“I just got off the phone with Josh and he acted like it was something he couldn’t do because of his command,” Mosher said June 29. “He just said he had talked to his superiors and I was led to believe they told him it was now a no-no.”

Col. David Mollahan, commander of Marine Aircraft Group 26, did not respond to a June 29 e-mail asking whether Belile is permitted to perform or record the song, and under what circumstances.

Previously at LGF:
CAIR Conducts Email Jihad Against Marines
Mainstream Media Disgrace of the Month: Hadji Girl
Marine Tells Story of ‘Hadji Girl’
Hadji Girl Update
MSM Comfortable As CAIR’s Mouthpiece

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