Muslims Demand Apology Over Radio Skit

Bill Handel is the morning drive guy on KFI-640 am in Los Angeles, and is anything but politically correct. At 8:30 he and his team do a segment called "Handel on the News" which is basically their way of making fun of news stories. It's often hilarious and I tune in when I can.
Right after this year's stampede at the hajj in Mecca, Handel did a piece in which one of his guys imitated an Arab traffic helicopter reporter covering the stampede at the hajj. I just about wrecked my car because I was laughing so hard. Apparently, a local Muslim group didn't think it was so funny:

A Muslim civil liberties group demanded an apology Thursday from the host of a Los Angeles-area radio show for making fun of a stampede that killed hundreds of Muslims during an annual pilgrimage.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations asked for an apology from KFI-AM 640 host Bill Handel, who allegedly made fun of the deaths the same day they happened during a segment he called the "Annual Stampede Report."

A spokeswoman for KFI, which is owned by Clear Channel Communications, did not immediately return a message left Thursday. Handel's producer, Michelle Kube, also did not return calls for comment. Handel had left work for the day and attempts to reach him were unsuccessful.

At least 363 pilgrims were killed and hundreds injured in a stampede Jan. 12 in Mecca, where thousands of people were rushing to carry out a symbolic ritual of stoning the devil.

According to the civil liberties group, Handel imitated the people screaming and then joked that the Muslims at the pilgrimage should use a helicopter to monitor pilgrimage traffic, as is done in Los Angeles with the freeways.

The group quoted Handel as saying: "This is Mahmoud Nolan. Hajj in the Sky. There is an accident. ... Ali lost his sandal on the on-ramp to the Martin Luther King Jr. freeway."

Actually, as I recall, it wasn't the Martin Luther King Jr. freeway, but the Muqutada al-Sadr freeway. It looks like the Muslims were trying to drum up some support from black activist groups as well. I wish they'd reprinted the entire piece, because it was really funny.

I've heard Handel and his bunch say lots of things that as a Christian, I could get really worked up about, but why bother? Life's too short to take everything so deadly seriously. Advice to CAIR: cool your jets. No one really cares if you're upset.

UPDATE: More news here.