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| SURPRISE! People take idiot DJÂ’s anti-Muslim hoax seriously |
| 2006-12-03 |
| Radio Hoax Exposes Emphasis added in the following article. WASHINGTON (Dec. 1) -- When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band, the phone lines jammed instantly. The first caller to the station in Washington said that Klein must be "off his rocker." The second congratulated him and added: "Not only do you tattoo them in the middle of their forehead but you ship them out of this country ... they are here to kill us." Another said that tattoos, armbands and other identifying markers such as crescent marks on driver's licenses, passports and birth certificates did not go far enough. "What good is identifying them?" he asked. "You have to set up encampments like during World War Two with the Japanese and Germans." At the end of the one-hour show, rich with arguments on why visual identification of "the threat in our midst" would alleviate the public's fears, Klein revealed that he had staged a hoax. It drew out reactions that are not uncommon in post-9/11 America. "I can't believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one second with anything I said," he told his audience on the AM station 630 WMAL, which covers Washington, Northern Virginia and Maryland. "For me to suggest to tattoo marks on people's bodies, have them wear armbands, put a crescent moon on their driver's license on their passport or birth certificate is disgusting. It's beyond disgusting. Why so? It's what the Muslims would do to us? Are you stuck on stupid? "Because basically what you just did was show me how the German people allowed what happened to the Jews to happen ... We need to separate them, we need to tattoo their arms, we need to make them wear the yellow Star of David, we need to put them in concentration camps, we basically just need to kill them all because they are dangerous." Many of us cannot believe you are idiotic enough not to understand how moral equivalency doesn't apply in this situation. The Jews were not seeking world domination. Islam is out to kill all who defy it. Only a slight difference between them, Mr. Klein. The show aired on November 26, the Sunday after the Thanksgiving holiday, and Klein said in an interview afterwards he had been surprised by the response. Only because you are a moron. "The switchboard went from empty to totally jammed within minutes," said Klein. "There were plenty of callers angry with me, but there were plenty who agreed." Those in agreement are not a fringe minority. A Gallup poll this summer of more than 1,000 Americans showed that 39 percent were in favor of requiring Muslims in the United States, including American citizens, to carry special identification. Roughly a quarter of those polled said they would not want to live next door to a Muslim and a third thought that Muslims in the United States sympathized with al Qaeda, the extremist group behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. A poll carried out by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an advocacy group, found that for one in three Americans, the word Islam triggers negative connotations such as "war," "hatred" and "terrorist." I wonder if CAIR inflated these numbers for sympathy. I also wonder if CAIR realizes that any upward tampering with these figures could have severe blowback in terms of convincing fence-sitters to be anti-Muslim. The war in Iraq has contributed to such perceptions. Klein's show followed a week of heated discussions on talk radio, including his own, and online forums over an incident on November 22 involving six Muslim clerics. They were handcuffed and taken off a US Airways flight after passengers reported "suspicious behavior" that included praying in the departure gate area. The clerics, on their way to a meeting of the North American Imams Federation, were detained in a holding cell, questioned by police and FBI agents, and released. Muslim community leaders saw the incident as yet more evidence of anti-Muslim prejudice. Only a couple of mistakes in the reporting. The imams were on there way FROM the meeting and their behavior went WAY BEYOND SUSPICIOUS in numerous respects. Ignorance Seen as Key Problem Several American Muslims interviewed on the subject of prejudice over the past few weeks said ignorance was at the core of the problem. Quite so, it just happens to be Muslim ignorance of just how seriously pissed off a lot of Americans are at the way that Islam continues to threaten our liberty. "The level of knowledge is very, very low," said Mohamed Esa, a U.S. Muslim of Arab descent who teaches a course on Islam at McDaniel College in Maryland. Get a clue, Mohamed. The animosity is even greater as the knowledge level increases. What does that tell you, Mr. Esa? "There are 1.3 billion Muslims in the world and some people think they are all terrorists." From their Thundering Silence, it is certainly becoming ever more difficult to think otherwise. This Muslim-first and American-second bullshit is a prime indicator. A nearly complete and total lack of integration or assimilation is another. Hossam Ahmed, a retired Air Force Reserve colonel who occasionally leads prayer meetings for the small Muslim congregation at the Pentagon, agreed. "Ignorance is the number one problem. Education is of the essence." I recommend you start educating American Muslims on how to assimilate before they end up in internment camps or simply being booted out of this country. There are no hard figures on how many Muslims have been subject to harassment or prejudice and community leaders say that ugly incidents can prompt spontaneous expressions of support. Such as the e-mail a Minneapolis woman sent to CAIR after the imams were taken off their flight. "I would like to ... help," the e-mail said. "While I cannot offer plane tickets, I would be happy to drive at least 2 or 3 of them. My car is small, but at least some of our hearts in this land of the free are large." Even if their brains are microscopic. What was it that Stalin said about "useful idiots"? And optimists saw signs of change in the November 4 election of the first Muslim to the U.S. House of Representatives, which has 435 members. Few informed people feel very optimistic about Ellison's participation in American government. His track record as a citizen and Muslim are both abysmal. Democrat Keith Ellison, a 43-year-old African-American lawyer, did not stress his religion during his campaign for a Minnesota seat, but said his victory would "signal to people who are not Muslims that Muslims have a lot to offer to the United States and the improvement of our country." With all of the enclaves and general refusal to integrate, it's really hard to see where there has been substantial contributions by recent Muslim immigrants to America. Mostly, it comes across as whineing and sniveling about how your precious sharia law is being trampled and how you'll have nine kinds of tantrums if you don't get your way. Here's a clue; Start turning in your jihadist imams and terrorist agitators. To date, you've shown an utterly miserable track record for doing this. Until that changes, expect to be thrown out with the bathwater when that time comes. |
| Posted by:Zenster |