Irony Dept: Talker Michael Savage Joins a Bunch of “Islamo-Fascists” on ‘Banned from U.K. List’

Rightie talk show host Michael Savage has made a lucrative second career on the airwaves as the Father Coughlin of our times.  Sure, Rush and Hannity may have more listeners and fame, but the absolute red meat, ‘us v. them’ vitriol emanates from San Francisco Monday through Friday.

Since 9/11 Savage has taken to savaging Islam on a nightly basis.  I might be wrong, but the term, “Islamo-Fascist” originated on his show.  Savage now finds himself in the company of some true Islamo-Fascists on the U.K. Home Secretary’s list of 16 people banned from visiting Great Britain.

Here are some of Savage’s soul mates on the list:

• Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal – Preacher. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to terrorist acts.
• Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim – A prolific speaker and writer. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glory terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to commit terrorist acts.
• Safwat Hijazi – Television preacher. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by glorifying terrorist violence.
• Nasr Javed – Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs.
• Abdul Ali Musa – Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fomenting and glorifying terrorist violence in furtherance of his particular beliefs and seeking to provoke others to terrorist acts.
• Samir Al Quntar – Spent three decades in prison for killing four soldiers and a four-year-old girl. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to terrorist acts.
• Amir Siddique – Preacher. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fomenting terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs.

There is some intellectual honesty in the term, “Islamo-Fascist.”  After all, a small percentage of Moslems and their Middle Ages clerics have sown a lot of destruction and subjugated populations throughout Asia and the Middle East through intolerance and coersion.  There is no freedom where these people rule or hold sway.

Savage’s problem is that he’s used his intellectual ability to not only point out the Islamo-Fascists, but paint the whole of Islam with his broad brush, sowing his own seeds of disharmony along the way.