{"id":3504,"date":"2008-12-04T16:26:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T16:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/12\/04\/radio-station-apologises-over-koran-verse-song\/"},"modified":"2008-12-04T16:26:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T16:26:41","slug":"radio-station-apologises-over-koran-verse-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/04\/radio-station-apologises-over-koran-verse-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio station apologises over \u2018Koran verse\u2019 song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Galaxy FM suspend DJ and Producer<\/h3>\n<div><strong>A NATIONAL radio station has suspended a DJ and producer after a song featuring verses from the Koran was played on air.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Birmingham arm of Galaxy FM said an investigation had been launched following the airing of \u2018Arab Money\u2019 by American rapper Busta Rhymes at the end of November. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A DJ and producer, who have not been named, have also been suspended, the station confirmed. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A statement released by the station said: \u201cOn the evening of <span>Saturday 29th November at Nine fifty eight pm Galaxy broadcast a song that has caused offence to\u00a0many of its listeners. This song was Busta Rhymes &#8211; Arab Money, a record that is publicly available and released by Universal Motown Records. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cGalaxy would like to apologise to all our listeners for the airing of this song, it was never Galaxy\u2019s intent to offend its listeners\u2019 and never will be. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cA full internal investigation has now commenced. <span>Galaxy would like to apologise for any offence however unintentionally caused.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A spokesperson from the Muslim Public Affairs Committee welcomed the swift response by the station.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cIt is rare for any media organisation to take such actions and so fast. Many organisations often justify their anti-Muslim behaviour as opposed to acknowledging it, apologising and taking swift action against those responsible. Galaxy\u2019s behaviour needs to be recognised by Muslims,\u201d the spokesperson said. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSome reports have suggested the song, which was also played on Galaxy Manchester, has featured little on UK radio for fear of offending British Muslims. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galaxy FM suspend DJ and Producer A NATIONAL radio station has suspended a DJ and producer after a song featuring verses from the Koran was played on air. &#13; The Birmingham arm of Galaxy FM said an investigation had been launched following the airing of \u2018Arab Money\u2019 by American rapper Busta Rhymes at the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}