Equal opportunity offender

Christian Century, May 1, 2007

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY OFFENDER: Radio shock jock Don hnus, first suspended for two weeks and then fired by CBS and MSNBC for his derogatory comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team, has offended many groups before, including Muslims. In 2004, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) got an apology from MSNBC for a comment on Imus's program--a fictitious "senior military affairs analyst" had justified the alleged execution of a wounded Iraqi by a U.S.

marine and referred to the Iraqi as a "booby-trapped raghead cadaver." Another Imus in the Morning program called Palestinians "stinking animals" and suggested that they all be killed (CAIR press release, April 11).