CAIR Seeks HBO Apology for ‘Curb’ Episode Mocking Jesus

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on HBO to apologize for an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” in which the main character splattered urine on a painting of Jesus.

SEE: Larry David Blasted for ‘Curb’ Episode Where He Urinates on Jesus Painting http://tinyurl.com/hboepisode

In a letter to HBO Chairman and CEO Bill Nelson, Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) wrote:

“It is beyond tasteless to insult the religious sensibilities of billions of people in America and around the world with such a cheap and vulgar publicity stunt. Jesus, peace be upon him, is loved and revered by both Christians and Muslims. Muslims view him as one of God’s greatest messengers to mankind. (more…)

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Tags: CAIR, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Islam, Jesus, Larry David
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 3:30 pm in Politics, Religion, Theatre | 255306110 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/10/29/cair-seeks-hbo-apology-for-curb-episode-mocking-jesus/CAIR+Seeks+HBO+Apology+for+%27Curb%27+Episode+Mocking+Jesus2009-10-29+22%3A30%3A36Big+Hollywood

‘The Simpsons’, Islamophobia and CAIR: The Price of Freedom

This past January, London’s Daily Star tabloid announced urgently that an upcoming episode – “the most controversial episode ever”! – of The Simpsons on the Sky1 network “pokes fun at Islam” and “is certain to enrage Muslim fanatics.” As anyone who morbidly follows this sort of thing (as I do) knows, enraging Muslim fanatics is hardly an accomplishment of Halley’s Comet-like rarity. It doesn’t take much: books, cartoons, teddy bears named Mohammad, posters of puppies, piggy banks, a Burger King ice cream swirl and the Nike logo (both of which apparently too closely resembled the Arabic script for “Allah”), are just a few of the recent Western offenses that have sparked their frothing outrage worldwide.

Yet despite the Daily Star’s perversely hopeful tone, there was no violent reaction in the UK from said fanatics, nor was there one in the United States after the episode originally aired here last Thanksgiving weekend (in a grimly ironic twist, the same weekend as the devastating mass murder and mayhem committed in Mumbai by a band of – wait for it – Muslim fanatics, or as the culturally sensitive media preferred to call them at the time, “gunmen”). So why no Muslim fury over The Simpsons? (more…)

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Tags: ACT! for America, Ahmed Ressam, al qaeda, Brigitte Gabriel, Burger King ice cream swirl
Posted Oct 26th 2009 at 5:00 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics, Religion, Television | 248530122 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2009/10/26/the-simpsons-islamophobia-and-cair-the-price-of-freedom/%27The+Simpsons%27%2C+Islamophobia+and+CAIR%3A+The+Price+of+Freedom2009-10-26+12%3A00%3A26Mark+Tapson

Burt’s Eye View: Some Townhalls Are Worse Than Others

Recently, I had a very odd experience.  No, I didn’t wake up 30 years younger and with a full head of hair.  That would have been odd but nice, whereas the experience I actually had was merely bizarre.

Like most bloggers, I write for more than one website.  It’s rather like being a syndicated columnist, except that little or no money changes hands.  But, as a writer who hopes to influence public opinion, you want to have as many readers as possible.

The strange event took place on a Tuesday.  It came in the form of an e-mail from Jonathan Garthwaite, who runs Townhall, a website I’ve contributed to for nearly four years.

The message read: “Dear Burt: As everyone is painfully aware, the economy is forcing companies to make difficult decisions.  Townhall.com is no different.  We take our commitment to our readers and our bottom line very seriously.  Similarly, we are constantly reassessing our editorial lineup.  We end up making tough decisions that aren’t always fun. (more…)

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Tags: bias, CAIR, media, Terror, terrorists
Posted Sep 17th 2009 at 11:38 am in Media Criticism | 224606134 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/17/burts-eye-view-some-townhalls-are-worse-than-others/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Some+Townhalls+Are+Worse+Than+Others2009-09-17+18%3A38%3A39Burt+Prelutsky

Burt’s Eye View: Liberalism is a Cult

For the longest time, I’ve insisted that liberalism is the religion of choice for atheists, agnostics and run-of-the-mill secularists.  After all, be they Christians, Jews, Moslems or Buddhists, the truly devout accept the tenets of their religion on faith.  They can try to have logical debates with the likes of a Christopher Hitchens, but in the end it all comes down to a couple of people getting red in the face, hollering “Is so” and “Is not” at each other. 

But, of late, I’ve decided that referring to liberalism as a religion for non-believers is showing it too much respect.  It far more resembles a cult.  Even the expression about leftists drinking the Kool-Aid refers to an actual cult, the one created by the certifiable loony, Jim Jones.  Having led his flock of deranged sheep from San Francisco to Guyana, one day in 1978, he ordered more than 900 of his followers to drink Kool-Aid laced with cyanide.  (more…)

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Tags: CAIR, Islam, liberals, Obama, townhall
Posted Sep 10th 2009 at 11:09 am in Politics | 218982162 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/09/10/burts-eye-view-liberalism-is-a-cult/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Liberalism+is+a+Cult2009-09-10+18%3A09%3A47Burt+Prelutsky

With “Taken,” Hollywood Inches Closer to Melting “Thou Must Whitewash Islam” Rule

With “Taken” debuting at the box office today, we’re inching closer to the melting of the post-9/11 “Thou Must Whitewash Islam” commandment.

Since 9/11, Hollywood is taken with the politically correct idea that they’re not allowed to portray Muslims as terrorists, or when they do, it’s to glorify the terrorists and justify their behavior–that America deserves it and made them do it.  Or–a la “24″–that Muslim terrorists are always working for the American White man.  Instead, Hollywood, post-9/11, made terrorists and hijackers, everyone BUT Muslims.  There were Black Men with AIDS from Africa (”The Interpreter“),  Federal Air Marshals and airline stewardesses, er . . . “flight attendants” (”Flight Plan,” exec produced by my uber-leftist cousin, Charles J.D. Schlissel), White Christians (a number of movies and TV shows) and everyone else you can think of . . . except Muslims, who make up the majority of real-life terrorists plotting against America today. (more…)

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Tags: 24, 9/11, ADC, AIDS, CAIR
Posted Jan 30th 2009 at 1:40 pm in Entertainment, Reviews | 3646655 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dschlussel/2009/01/30/with-taken-hollywood-inches-closer-to-melting-thou-must-whitewash-islam-rule/With+%22Taken%2C%22+Hollywood+Inches+Closer+to+Melting+%22Thou+Must+Whitewash+Islam%22+Rule2009-01-30+21%3A40%3A52Debbie+Schlussel