July 03, 2007
An Islamic advocacy group is urging its supporters to call a Washington, D.C., radio station to "express your concerns about the Islamophobic attitudes" expressed by conservative columnist and author Cal Thomas.In a commentary on news-talk WTOP radio Monday morning, Thomas discussed the car-bomb terror attacks recently thwarted in the United Kingdom. The eight Muslims arrested in connection with the plot include several physicians.
"How much longer should we allow people from certain lands, with certain beliefs to come to Britain and America and build their mosques, teach hate, and plot to kill us?" Thomas asked.
He also compared Muslims to a "slow spreading cancer" that must be stopped.
CAIR calls the comments incitement, though there is no call for violence or any activity at all. Indeed, the only thing this speech might incite is a call to public officials demanding that reasonable actions be taken to safeguard our nation from terrorist attacks like those in the UK last week -- attacks that CAIR somehow managed to avoid condemning on their website, even as they went after Cal Thomas for daring to express a thought the group dislikes.
So here's what we need to do in response -- if CAIR is going to target Thomas with a campaign to pressure WTOP to get rid of him, we should be just as forceful in supporting Cal Thomas. Fortunately, CAIR has even provided us with the contact information.
CONTACT:
Jim Farley, WTOP Programming Vice President
Tel: 202-895-5071
Fax: 202-895-5088
Email: jfarley@wtopnews.com
And if you want, you can even include the requested CC to CAIR -- just to let them know what the overwhelming majority of Americans think about Islamic terrorism and those who support it.
COPY TO: info@cair.com
Your choice on that one.
But regardless, we must make sure that this terrorist supporting organization is unsuccessful in silencing voices against terrorism.
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The Majority of Muslims are against terrorism, but i'm afraid that people like Thomas are pushing the by-standards to choose side by bad-mouthing mosques and everything Islamic -What a counter-productive way of doing it!
Posted by: MA at Thu Jul 5 12:08:56 2007 (P5ywB)
I suppose that if a survey showed that 1 out of every 4 Americans between 15 and 35 advocated burning mosques to the ground and putting the worshippers to the sword, you would argue that most Americans oppose such things and that anyone in the Muslim community who raised an alarm was being counter-productive, right? I didn't think so.
By the way, here is what Cal Thomas actually said.
"How much longer should we allow people from certain lands, with certain beliefs to come to Britain and America and build their mosques, teach hate, and plot to kill us?" Thomas asked. "Okay, lets have the required disclaimer: Not all Muslims from the Middle East and southeast Asia want to kill us, but those who do blend in with those who don't. Would anyone tolerate a slow-spreading cancer because it wasn't fast-spreading? Probably not. You'd want it removed."
He acknowledges your point -- but rightly points out that when you have a solid minority of Muslims that wants to kill us, the good-will of the majority of Muslims really is not all that important.
Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Thu Jul 5 12:17:10 2007 (7S9Sp)
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