Walt Disney Or Walt Dhimmi?

Wow. I guess if I'd said this on a certain Washington, D.C. radio station, the Islamists would have muzzled me on "Allah's" behalf, too.

Well, indirectly, anyway:

Conservative talk-show host Michael Graham was suspended without pay today by
ABC Disney after threats from the Council for American-Islamic Relations over his on-air comments regarding terrorism and Islam.

"Threats"? From Islamists? Sounds familiar somehow.

Despite repeated statements of support for Graham's free-speech rights by management at 630 WMAL in Washington, D.C. - the ABC-owned radio station where Graham works as mid-morning host - he was summarily suspended pending an "investigation."

Investigation of what? Telling the truth about our enemies? Besides, Mr. Graham is a talk show host - doesn't WMAL management listen to their own station? And why do they suddenly feel the need to "investigate" him when they've been unabashedly defending him?

Looks like they've got dhimmitude down pat.

But what could Mr. Graham have possibly said that was so "hateful" and "bigoted" and "Islamophobic"?

Because of the mix of Islamic theology that - rightly or wrongly - is interpreted to promote violence, added to an organizational structure that allows violent radicals to operate openly in Islam's name with impunity, Islam has, sadly, become a terrorist organization. It pains me to say it. But the good news is it doesn't have to stay this way, if the vast majority of Muslims who don't support terror will step forward and re-claim their religion.

That's it? That's what all the fuss is about? Frankly, it's rather mild. Islamic theology most definitely does promote violence - why else are bin Laden, Zarqawi, the Iranian mullahs et al referred to as Islamic fundamentalists? And the result ("violent radicals operating openly in Islam's name with impunity") is hardly controversial in any, well, factual sense.

The only misstatement in what Mr. Graham said is his reference to Islam as "a" terrorist organization, when, as we all know, Islam has spawned multiple terrorist networks around the world. It is fair to say that while not every Muslim is a terrorist, just about every terrorist is a Muslim. But then Muslims can serve the cause of jihad other than by taking up arms or strapping on a bomb belt, too, via propaganda and espionage, both in which CAIR could not unreasonably be said to be engaged.

And make no mistake, they're very good at it. They've got the Walt Dhimmi - er, Disney - Company about two or three steps removed from issuing employees prayer rugs and mandatory Mecca bowing. Score another one for the bad guys.

Mr. Graham, though, is admirably unrepentant:

But I'm an American, and if fighting for free speech and for the truth in the war on terrorism means getting fired by some corporate suit at ABC Disney who can't stand up for free speech - so be it. But I will not recant.

Sorry, CAIR. As pathetically "weak horse" as Mr. Graham's bosses are, I don't think you're gonna be able to bulldoze them into giving him the Theo Van Gogh treatment. Because I think that's what it's going to take to shut this man up.

How do you say "Kiss my ass" in Arabic, anyway?

[HT's: Brian Suits, Powerline]