Clear Channel = Islamophobia?

I guess there are certain groups it's still okay to make fun of. After all, it's entertainment, right? The poop:

WASHINGTON, March 17 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The U.S. largest radio chain is to apologize on air for an Islamophobic skit that claimed Muslims have sex with animals, avoid bathing and are obsessed with killing Jews, an official of Clear Channel Communications station KFI said on Tuesday, March 16.

"In the process, we unwittingly offended a lot of people, and for that we are very sorry," KFI Program Director Robin Bertolucci told Reuters on Tuesday.

In the March 10 Bill Handel show on the station, a pretend "Muslim" allegedly reading from the new Iraqi constitution refers to "hairy Iraqi women," "lovely Japanese schoolgirls," the "infidel custom of bathing on a regular basis," and "civil unions" between Iraqis and "loving camels and goats".

Throughout the skit, the mock Muslim repeatedly stated "Allah be praised," "death to the Jews" and "kill all Jews."

Another part, he said, granted Iraqi men 72 virgins when they entered heaven, adding: "the virgins, however, will not be hairy Iraqi women but lovely Japanese schoolgirls".

A third section banned Western teachings from the country, including "the infidel custom of bathing on a regular basis", the fake scholar claimed.

The performer added that a section of document read: "Consenting civil unions between Iraqis and loving camels and goats will be recognized".

"That was not our intention. Our intention was to be satirical," Bertlucci said.

Islam stipulates no war between Muslims and Jews across the world, looks upon Jews and Christians with special regard as peoples of the book and prohibits killing civilians regardless of their faith.

Islam also calls for Muslims to be as clean as tidy, with one religious saying stressing that cleanliness is part and parcel of the religion.

'We Are Tired'

The would-be apology comes after a Islamic rights group has filed a federal complaint against the Los Angeles talk radio station.

Sabiha Khan, a spokeswoman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said her group filed the complaint after KFI and Handel initially refused to apologize.

"We're tired of being stepped all over and being made fun of over airwaves," she said.

"No American should ever have to take this type of treatment," she added.

Khan said the skit obviously "crossed the line from comedy to outright bigotry and racism that could negatively impact the lives of ordinary American Muslims".

Much more at link I only found out about this because I check IslamOnline daily. A search on Google yields nada. I'm going to send this to a few progressive media outlets and see if it gets picked up. That'll be telling.

"Why do they hate us?" Well, I don't think that the vast majority do. Certainly airing garbage like this isn't going to win you any friends amongst any group.

Pathetic.

They are still waiting for their apology!!

As if we needed yet another reason to be against media consolidation.