CAIR Goes After Don Imus
Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 9:03:52 am PST
Here’s a press release for the latest operation in radical Islamist group CAIR’s propaganda jihad: Palestinians Called ‘Filthy Animals’ on MSNBC’s ‘Imus’...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ — A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called for an apology from the MSNBC cable television network over comments on its “Imus in the Morning” program that referred to Palestinians as “filthy animals” and suggested that they all be killed.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also urged that the program’s host, Don Imus, be reprimanded for failing to challenge his colleagues’ inflammatory remarks. CAIR, which says it received numerous complaints about the comments, quoted a transcript of Imus’ November 12th program in which he and his on-air colleagues engaged in the following discussion about live coverage of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s funeral:
DON IMUS: They’re (the Palestinians) eating dirt and that fat pig wife of his is living in Paris.
COLLEAGUE: They’re all brainwashed, though. That’s what it is. And they’re stupid, to begin with, but they’re brainwashed now. Stinking animals. They ought to drop the bomb right there, kill ‘em all right now...
IMUS: Well, the problem is we have (reporter) Andrea (Mitchell) there; we don’t want anything to happen to her.
COLLEAGUE: Oh, she’s got to get out. Andrea, get out and then drop the bomb and kill everybody...
COLLEAGUE: Look at this. Animals. Animals!
In a letter to MSNBC President Neal Shapiro, CAIR stated: “We are firm defenders of the First Amendment, but these hate-filled and racist remarks can only serve to legitimize anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bigotry in our society and could lead to further discrimination against members of the Islamic and Arab-American communities.” (CAIR also filed a complaint with the FCC because “Imus in the Morning” is a nationally-syndicated radio program.)
UPDATE at 11/19/04 10:07:29 am:
Stop the presses! Imus is really on CAIR’s uppity infidel list now: MSNBC ‘Imus’ Segment Refers to ‘Raghead Cadaver’...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ — The Council on American- Islamic Relations (CAIR) is once again demanding an apology from the MSNBC cable television network for anti-Arab/anti-Muslim remarks made on its “Imus in the Morning” program.
In a segment today commenting on the apparent execution of a wounded Iraqi in Fallujah by a U.S. Marine, a fictitious “Senior Military Affairs Advisor” to the program justified the killing by referring to a “booby-trapped raghead cadaver.” The fictitious advisor also said the killing provided an “Al-Jazeera moment” causing the “Muslim masses to respond with their routine pack of rabid sheep mentality.”
Yesterday, CAIR issued a similar call for an apology for a Nov. 12th “Imus” program that referred to Palestinians as “stinking animals” and suggested that they all be killed.
UPDATE at 3/3/05 5:49:12 pm:
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