The Michael Graham Saga: Did Anyone Learn Anything?

Many people are finally chattering about and writing about the firing of Michael Graham from WMAL 630 a.m. by ABC. Awakening is good to witness, but it would have been so much more helpful to have awakened BEFORE going over the falls. However, far too many people have yet to catch on to how badly they have been hustled, and how bad the outcome bodes for their futures.

Let's let CAIR (Council for American-Islamic Relations) sum up the saga, complete with their spin:

CAIR Action Alert # 466

DC RADIO HOST FIRED OVER ANTI-ISLAM REMARKS

Contact WMAL to show support for its decision

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/22/05) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today applauded a Washington, D.C., radio station's decision to fire a talk show host who stated repeatedly that "Islam is a terrorist organization."

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said media reports indicate that WMAL-AM fired host Michael Graham last Friday after he refused to retract his anti-Islam statements, make an on-air apology and conduct additional outreach efforts to the Muslim community and others offended by his words.

The controversy began last month when Graham stated: 1. "Islam is a terrorist organization." 2. "Islam is at war with America." 3. "The problem is not extremism. The problem is Islam." 4. "We are at war with a terrorist organization named Islam." [Editor's note: Every single one of these statements is true and provable, but you have to do your homework to know it. CAIR counts on manipulating your ignorance.] Other listeners said that Graham even encouraged a public "backlash" against Muslims. (Graham later claimed he meant a backlash of social pressure, not violent attacks on Muslims.)

In response, CAIR initiated a public campaign against WMAL and the station's advertisers after receiving complaints from listeners who heard Graham make those anti-Islam remarks. While WMAL initially stood behind Graham, it changed its position after hundreds of people responded to the group's action alerts by contacting the station and its sponsors.

"Just as Michael Graham has the right to hold bigoted views, so, too, does our society have the right to live free of hatred and incitement," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. [Editor's note: CAIR reserves the right to live full of hatred and incitement against all and all things not Muslim. This is the predator cursing the prey for resisting.] "We are saddened that Michael Graham would not take responsibility for his hate-filled words, but we do welcome WMAL's action as a step toward reducing the level of anti-Muslim bigotry on our nation's airwaves." [Editor's Note: This last statement acknowledges that WMAL, ABC, and the Walt Dhimmi Company completed their conversion to dhimmitude.]

Awad thanked the local Metropolitan-D.C. Muslim community, interfaith leaders and the many people in America and worldwide who contacted WMAL and its advertisers to express their concerns over Graham's bigoted comments.

IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUESTED:

1. CONTACT WMAL to thank the station for making Michael Graham's suspension permanent.
2. CONTACT WMAL ADVERTISERS to express your support for the station's decision.

Michael Graham appeared on 22 August 2005 on John Gibson's "The Big Story" on Fox News. He spoke into the camera, in essence looking us in the eyes, and he told the facts as facts. He spoke as a moral man upholding a moral position, and is moral presence could not have more striking. Yes, he indicated, he was fired, not cowed. He was right, and he stood by himself. He joins Representative Tom Tancredo as a man who told the truth and would not apologize for it or retract it. We should stand tall with both men.

Did anyone learn anything from this travesty? Some things come to mind;

o WMAL, the Always Behaving Cowardly network, and the Walt Dhimmi Company have completed their descent into dhimmitude. Were this pre-World War II, these would be those Europeans having readied themselves to live peacefully and willingly under Nazism. WMAL used to be a proud and leading station. ABC has never been any better than socialist Peter Jennings whom they just finished lionizing. The Walt Disney Company once stood as a paragon company that stood for something, before the groveling suits took over.

o CAIR won a very big one, and CAIR will make the most of this. CAIR is after the destruction of the American Constitution in order to dominate America with the rot of Islam. This victory will make them stronger adversaries, and much more aggressive.

o The Right, to the extent they woke up to what was happening to Michael Graham, awakened too late to effect the outcome. Their right to speak and express themselves has been dealt as bad a blow as the Kelo decision to the Fifth Amendment, delivered by the Supreme Court on 23 June 2005. Most of the Right do not realize that the time their microphones are on grows dangerously short.

o Americans lost big time. Sadly, most don't even know what happened, and that is just as CAIR wants it. So many Americans insist on hanging on to their ignorance about Islam and the extreme dangers it poses to them. H. L. Mencken referred to this type of American as boobus Americanus--and these people endanger us all with their militant ignorance. Those of us who see the truth and know what must be done have had our jobs made more difficult.

There is one other lesson learned from all of this. CAIR has organized itself brilliantly and carries out its actions with great efficacy. We on the other side of this have no such organization and actions. We have a sea of apologists, teeming with political-correctness-and-multicultural robots, and inefficacious intellectuals, journalists, media types, politicians, and bureaucrats. In this sense, right now, we are like Mr. Potato Head fending off the mechanized potato slicer/dicer/masher. We are late to the fight, and we are fighting with all of our brains tied behind our backs--culturally speaking.

There are many of us who know the truth about Islam, CAIR, and its ilk. We are carrying on admirably and well. We are like the Australian coastal watchers in the early days of the Pacific Ocean phase of World War II. Right now, the enemy is in ascendency. And it is unpleasant to acknowledge it.

We must keep up what we are doing as ceaselessly as did the coastal watchers. We will make the tide turn, but not tomorrow. To do any less is to join WMAL, ABC, and Disney in volunteering for dhimmitude.