Critical Thoughts

What do you do if you are a bigoted, American radio talk show host and was quoted by an Islamic civil rights group as having referred to the Qur’an as “a throwback document” and a “book of hate”? You sue them in court, of course.

A conservative radio talk show host sued an Islamic civil rights group on Monday for copyright infringement over the organization’s use of a portion of his show in which he called the Quran a “book of hate.”

Michael Savage said the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American- Islamic Relations, or CAIR, violated his rights by wrongfully using a 4-minute segment of his Oct. 29 “The Savage Nation” show in a letter- writing campaign directed against talk radio advertisers. Audio from the show remained on CAIR’s Web site Monday.

LOL, whatever happened to “free speech”? It seems that the Land of the Free is not so “free” after all when it comes to Islamophobes and their sense of myopic “superiority” (not!) over Islam. So what did Savage really say that made him all hot and bothered over it?

In the broadcast, Savage called the Muslim holy book “a throwback document” and a “book of hate.”

“What kind of religion is this? What kind of world are you living in when you let them in here with that throwback document in their hand, which is a book of hate,” Savage said during the portion of the broadcast highlighted by CAIR. “Don’t tell me I need reeducation. They need deportation.”

And of course, the “excuse” given by Savage for his suit is equally pathetic:

In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Savage said he was talking about Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his dangerous and violent brand of Islamic extremism, not about the religion in general.

I’m sorry, but when you refer to the Qur’an as “a throwback document” and a “book of hate”, not to mention the incriminating evidence being recorded on audio, I doubt that anyone in their sane mind will think that this is a specific reference to Iran.

Oh, by the way, Michael Savage, I think your “holy” book, the Babble, is indeed a “a throwback document” and is nothing but a “book of hate”. And if you want evidence of that, refer to Deutronomy 7:1-2, 20:10-17; Numbers 31:14-18, Ezekiel 23, Luke 19:26-27…

Talk about throwing stones at glass houses.