Virgin Radio Dubai fires DJ for going off on Senator Chambers’ God lawsuit
Ernie strikes again! On Monday, a Dubai DJ reporting on Senator Ernie Chambers’ recently-dismissed lawsuit against God, joked around pretending he was on the phone with The Big Guy. Under a barrage of listener complaints, the DJ, Revin John, was immediately fired. He was allowed to come back on air briefly Tuesday to apologize.
Mariam Zarouni, a 20-year-old chemical engineering student at the American University of Sharjah, said she was so offended by John’s comments that she formed a group to protest the incident on the social networking Web site Facebook. It had 569 members by Wednesday evening.
“When somebody crosses the line, then you have to defend your religion,” Zarouni said. “Honestly … how can he do this? We’re in a Muslim county. But even Christians would take offense to that. You can’t insult God.”
The comments on the Facebook thread largely concern Zarouni’s nuttiness, and a lot of the Muslims in the group seem to be there just to tell her she should lighten up.
John wasn’t even talking about Islam, but Zarouni is making sure nobody’s God is getting dissed!
A commenter mentioned the definition of ‘vain’, as in ‘taking the Lord’s name in’:
4. without real significance, value, or importance; baseless or worthless.
I can see why that would bug some people. At least the pretense of John’s joke was that God exists, and he seems to want the good people of Dubai to listen to Britney Spears.
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