Radio host's comments on Islam "abusive and unduly discriminatory", says CBSC

OTTAWA – Comments made by Ottawa radio host Lowell Green about Islam and its practitioners have violated the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has found. The CBSC received a complaint from a listener who was concerned about Green’s depiction of Islam and Muslims on the December 3, 2007 broadcast of the ‘Lowell Green Show’ on 580 CFRA in Ottawa. Prompted by the internationally-discussed Muslim reaction to the teddy bear naming incident in Khartoum, Sudan, the topic of the day on the open-line talk show was Islam, and Green posed the question “Is there something...