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Media Matters for America – Nov. 29, 2006
Savage: To "save the United States," lawmakers
should institute "outright ban on Muslim immigration" and on "the construction of mosques"
On the November 27 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage declared that in order to "save the United States," lawmakers should institute "an outright ban on Muslim immigration" into the country. Savage also recommended making "the construction of mosques illegal in America, and the speaking of English only in the streets of the United States the law."
Savage made the remarks while discussing a November 20 incident in which six imams were detained at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after a passenger became alarmed that the imams were praying. The imams were cleared of any wrongdoing. Savage claimed that the imams' prayers in the airport -- and not the fact that they were asked to de-board the plane -- constituted a "complete and total assault upon our civil rights," adding that the Justice Department should "stand up to these imams and possibly throw them out of the country for having staged this attack at the airport against US Airways specifically to impose Muslim views on society through civil rights and diversity training." Savage also baselessly suggested that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) planted the imams at the airport to incite the incident, saying that "there's an email trail about how to do this and it goes right into the ACLU and the other subversive organizations."
Savage has previously described Arabs as "non-humans" and "racist, fascist bigots," advocated "kill[ing] 100 million" Muslims, and claimed that there is no difference between "radical Islam and the rest of Islam over there."….
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