STOP AMERICAN DHIMMITUDE: GET MICHAEL GRAHAM BACK ON THE AIR III

Wonderfully gutsy Jewish World Review published Michael Graham's explanations of his position in an article 28 July 2005.

It reads, in part:

Jewish World Review July 28, 2005 / 21 Tamuz, 5765

THE TRAGEDY OF ISLAM

By Michael Graham

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com 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."

Certainly not the group of "moderate" Muslim clerics and imams who gathered in London last week to issue a statement on terrorism and their faith. When asked the question "Are suicide bombings always a violation of Islam," they could not answer "Yes. Always." Instead, these "moderate British Muslims" had to answer "It depends."

Precisely what it depends on, news reports did not say. Sadly, given our new knowledge of Islam from the past four years, it probably depends on whether or not you're killing Jews.

That is part of the state of modern Islam.

Read the entire article at

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/graham072805.php3

We were so very proud of the moral fortitude of Jewish World Review and Mr. Graham for speaking their minds and exercising the First Amendment to its proper use. We sent the following email both to JWR and Mr. Graham.

In response to Michael Graham's article, "The Tragedy of Islam" in JWR today.

First, I bow in moral admiration to Jewish World Review for publishing this article. Given the context of the times, the article is not politically correct. It is even worse--it tells the truth, the core truth. This kind of article would scare the panties off a number of conservative and other right wing publications because of their own (suicidal) political correctness; they would fear to publish, thus would not. While over the past year, JWR has become one of my favorite publications because of the quality of its publications, its publishing Mr. Graham's article, however, pushes JWR a quantum leap. JWR frankly makes me feel very proud displaying such moral fortitude and integrity. Both are rare these days.

Second, I support Mr. Graham. I support his right to say and write, according to the creation of my hero (George Mason), codified in the First Amendment to the Constitution. I support Mr. Graham because he is someone on the right and in broadcasting who really is "getting it" about Islam (too few are), and he refuses to buckle to the intimidation machine of CAIR and its ilk.

As soon as CAIR sent out its email, which we call its "Daily Whine," we saw that it had set out to damage, if not destroy, Mr. Graham, WMAL, and scare the pantaloons off of WMAL advertisers following on-air comments Mr. Graham made on his program. CAIR uses this trick over and over--because it works. We read CAIR's Daily Whine and promptly blogged our support for Mr. Graham, based on the comments contained in the Daily Whine. CAIR had gone to great lengths to select those comments and to arrange them in such a way to make Mr. Graham look the worst. But, our minds do not belong to CAIR. The truth came through. We are only sorry that we live so far away in fly-over country that we are still using a modem and cannot listen to his program at all.

Within two weeks, two important phenomena have occurred, and they are strongly related at the level of fundamental principles. Representative Tom Tancredo has been under severe attack by CAIR and related groups for his remarks, which they want their handpuppets to interpret to mean that Rep. Tancredo wants to nuke Mecca, Medina, and so on. We read his remarks. We know what he said, and we have heard him interviewed since then. Both Mr. Tancredo and Mr. Graham made the same "mistakes": (1.) Both broke "omerta," the politically correct code of silence (yes, I am borrowing this from the mafia) and said things which the politically correct police do not want said; and, (2.) both told the God's honest truth. Mr. Tancredo rose enormously in our eyes by his refusal to apologize or back down, and he wrote a great piece elaborating his views in the Denver Post.

By the way, CAIR met someone who did not even blink before its intimidation machine. It might have been a first for CAIR. CAIR subsequently sputtered and made a great deal of vacuous noise and sank into choruses of "woe is us, what is the world coming to." By standing up to CAIR, Mr. Tancredo showed just how really weak CAIR, and its like truly are. They have developed the appearance of being strong because they ran over so many who were much more cowardly than them--until Rep. Tancredo. Hopefully, Mr. Graham joins this moral elite. CAIR and its ilk fight the "covert jihad," as we prefer to call it, leaving al-Qaeda, etc., to fight the overt jihad. As a result, CAIR et al are spreaders of the poisonous intent of Islam, just as Mr. Graham points out.

Two public figures of honesty, integrity, and principles, speaking courageously and truthfully, and both within two weeks of each other. America has two sons it can be very proud of, and let us throw in the folks at JWR who dared to print the politically incorrect--they are among America's proud sons and daughters as well.

Readers should sally forth to support Mr. Graham directly and to let WMAL and its advertisers know that the "truth shall make you free."

Please ask Mr. Graham to write frequently for JWR so that those of us "out here" can get that shot in the arm provided by good moral examples.

And, as for Islam, CAIR, and all of the ugly pressure out to damage if not destroy Mr. Graham, Rep. Tancredo, and all others who stand UP for principles and speak the TRUTH: Reality always wins in the end!

George Mason

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