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Blog pulled over call to kill Muslims
By ASJYLYN LODER
Published December 16, 2006
A blogger was shut down late Thursday for telling readers, " ...we need to kill all Muslim kids. Starting now." The Boca Raton-based Web host removed the blog from the Internet after complaints from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Ahmed Bedier, executive director of the group's Tampa chapter. "It's frightening," Bedier said. "We were concerned about the safety of the kids in the area." Vilmar Tavares, the Spring Hill author of the Right Wing Howler blog, did not return a call for comment Friday. Bedier said he had been monitoring the site after a recent spate of anti-Muslim comments in Hernando County. In late October, Mary Ann Hogan, a prominent local Republican and former state committeewoman, wrote a letter calling Islam a "hateful, frightening religion." State politicians condemned her remarks, and those of her husband, then-county Commissioner Tom Hogan Sr. The new posting prompted Bedier on Tuesday to contact Host Gator Co., asking it to shut down the site. Bedier said Host Gator told him Thursday it had shuttered the site.
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