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Mark Williams calls Allah a "monkey god," is he still welcome on CNN's air?

May 18, 2010 7:52 pm ET by Oliver Willis

On his blog, talk radio host and CNN guest Mark Williams reacted to plans to to build a mosque near ground zero in New York City:

The animals of allah for whom any day is a great day for a massacre are drooling over the positive response that they are getting from New York City officials over a proposal to build a 13 story monument to the 9/11  Muslims who hijacked those 4 airliners.

The monument would consist of a Mosque for the worship of the terrorists' monkey-god and a "cultural center"  to propagandize for the extermination of all things not approved by their cult.

(via TPM)

This isn't the first round of offensive commentary from Williams, who is also "chairman" of the Tea Party Express:

Williams is a frequent guest of CNN, and is usually invited to discuss the tea party movement and its activists. He most recently appeared on April 19th.

At what point does CNN make an editorial decision on what sort of commentary disqualifies someone from being an invited guest. It surely is possible to have someone representing the conservative point of view on air without lowering themselves to Mark Williams' standards, isn't it?

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    • Author by mmfa.fan (May 18, 2010 7:55 pm ET)
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      Quite the sane and reasonable person, he is.
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    • Author by dogbreath (May 18, 2010 8:19 pm ET)
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      Well they still have Eric, son of Eric on there. Sad to see CNN marching their way toward Crazyland.
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    • Author by cbcbcb (May 18, 2010 10:21 pm ET)
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      As far as I am concerned they are all "monkey gods."
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    • Author by grmce (May 18, 2010 11:52 pm ET)
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      Is Mr Towering Intellect Williams aware that Allah is Yahweh, Jehovah - the God of Abrahamic tradition, the God of the Religions of the Book. The God of Christianity.

      Does the "monkey god" crack apply to Jews and Christians? Or is he just a dimwitted bigot whose irrational hatred of "the other" transcends any incentive to actually learn about "the unfamiliar".
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      • Author by raddave43 (May 18, 2010 11:55 pm ET)
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        Or, is he aware that Allah is NOT the name of the Islamic God, but the Arabic word for God and that Arabic Christians use the world as well?
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        • Author by txthinker (May 19, 2010 9:49 am ET)
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          Actually, God's name is Howard.

          "Our Father, who art in Heaven, Howard be thy name...."

          :-)
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          • Author by jediknight65 (May 19, 2010 10:40 am ET)
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            and jesus' name is actually in english translation Joshua
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            • Author by political_left-religious_right (May 19, 2010 12:28 pm ET)
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              Not quite--Joshua (yeh-shua, meaning "Jehovah saves") is the Hebrew name, and "Jesus" is the translation into Koine Greek. No English is involved, since English wouldn't exist as a language for many centuries.
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          • Author by shaggles (May 19, 2010 12:15 pm ET)
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            :D
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    • Author by DAWUSS (May 18, 2010 11:57 pm ET)
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      Lou Dobbs was an upgrade
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    • Author by nerzog (May 19, 2010 8:01 am ET)
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      Hanuman is not amused.

      [http://www.totalizm.pl/proofs/monkey_god.jpg]
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    • Author by jediknight65 (May 19, 2010 10:42 am ET)
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      ummmm ok.......how is this not racist again?

      oh yeah and also ummmmm god in the islamic religion is the same god that christians have.......thy just have different holy books and they have many of the same prophets that we do........they just dont see jesus as the son of god, muslims believed him to be just another prophet.
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    • Author by shaggles (May 19, 2010 11:16 am ET)
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      Umm. Allah is the same God that Christians and Jews worship.
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    • Author by mata ruach (May 19, 2010 1:33 pm ET)
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      This man is an idiot, a buffoon, and a slack-jawed fool. "Allah"is simply another word for God in Arabic, the same one worshipped by Jews , Christians and Muslims alike. Bigots like him should never be allowed anywhere near a microphone.
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