Foehammer’s Anvil

ST. PETERSBURG - For the first time in nearly five years, controversial Christian televangelist Bill Keller is going off the air.

Keller - known for his vitriolic criticism of religious, political and pop culture figures - said Thursday his program was yanked in response to pressure from local Muslims.

Earlier this month, officials from the Council on American Islamic Relations wrote to executives at CBS asking them to investigate Live Prayer with Bill Keller, an hourlong nightly program.

In a May 2 broadcast, the televangelist said Islam was a “1,400-year-old lie from the pits of hell” and called the Prophet Mohammed a “murdering pedophile.” He also called the Koran a “book of fables and a book of lies.”

CAIR officials asked for equal air time for Florida Muslims to counter Keller’s assertions. The show, which aired nightly from 1to 2 a.m., is broadcast on WTOG-TV CH. 44, a CBS-owned station that airs the CW network locally.

“I’m saying nothing now that I haven’t been saying for five years,” said Keller, who plans to hold his last broadcast on Aug. 31. “Ultimately, it was pressure by CAIR that intimidated these people into taking me off the air. It was not mutually agreeable. They told me they were taking me off the air, period.”

There’s no sense in my rehashing the following story all over again, so I’ll direct you to The Jawa Report (hat-tip: 1389) and let you take in the “big picture” of what all this means for the United States of America. And yet, I don’t mind beating this dead horse over and over again, because I know damn well that too many people aren’t going to “get it” unless I do. And we are at war people, make no mistake. Right here, right now, in the good old U. S. of A., the Muslims are getting their way more and more and more. Do we truly despise ourselves so much now that we can not even face down lies and 7th century ideology that would bring us all down to our knees at the end of this century if we only only continue to give Islam concessions upon concessions?

How dare anyone speak the truth! You might as well tape your own mouths shut with duct tape right now and save yourselves the trouble of being ridiculed by your neighbors, censored by watchdog groups on the Internet or outright bullied by an increasingly intimidated and appeasing set of local and state and federal governments. CAIR is gonna getcha!

With all the absolute garbage that gets put on the public television airwaves without fear of censorship because it has no substance and raises no real issues, yanking Bill Keller’s show is nothing less than proof that we are already dhimmifide weaklings in the making, living in a state of denial, and that our time as Americans that can further afford to remain aloof to the realities before us is quickly ticking away.

Bill Keller has guts. I applaud him for speaking out against Islam. I may not agree with all his stances as far as I know them, but in America we supposedly have a right to agree to disagree and still be heard, but I’ll be damned if this isn’t becoming more and more a fiction as time goes by. Need anyone wonder why I state that?

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