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Well today I updated my podcast. The first new posting in a few months. If you are a fan of OTR or just radio in general give it a listen.

My Grandpa’s Radio

In U.S., fear and distrust of Muslims runs deep

  Wow this is pretty sad don’t ya think?  A radio DJ played Devil’s Advocate by suggesting an idea that he did not believe in to get calls and see how the public felt….. sad thing is lots agreed with his fake thought…. Wow!  I am truly appalled with the rational of some people.  It’s sickening and I can’t believe people can really feel this way …….

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- 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.”

Here is what he said at the end of the show…….

“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 (http://www.wmal.com/), 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.

“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.”