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The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has gotten Thaddeus Billman fired for conducting a YouTube interview with Robert Spencer in October 2024.
Billman discusses his firing from the Columbus Community Shelter Board on his YouTube channel, where he notes that the Columbus Dispatch attributes the words of the notorious Islamic apologist Ali Dawah to Billman himself.
In previously posted free videos on the channel, Billman calls Muslims “crackhead clown individuals” and openly states that he is a fan of a man the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “one of America’s most prolific and vociferous anti-Muslim propagandists.”
This means that reporter Danae King did zero journalism, and took dictation from CAIR instead.
CAIR’s director in Ohio, Khalid Turaani, is quoted by the Dispatch:
“Billman’s role in a community nonprofit serving Muslims, among others, should alarm us all — proof that hate thrives even in well-intentioned spaces,” said Khalid Turaani, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Ohio (CAIR-Ohio).
The Columbus-based Ohio chapter of the national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization called on the Community Shelter Board (CSB) to fire Billman.
“For such a well-regarded organization in the Columbus area to have a person peddling hate in such a way that it’s creating a platform for a very well-known racist is simply unacceptable,” said Turaani, who leads CAIR’s Columbus, Cincinnati and Dayton chapters.”
“Billman’s role in a community nonprofit serving Muslims, among others, should alarm us all — proof that hate thrives even in well-intentioned spaces,” said Khalid Turaani, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Ohio (CAIR-Ohio).
Thaddeus Billman was summarily fired from his operations administrator position at the Community Shelter Board (CSB) within minutes of CAIR’s complaint. According to Billman, he was not even allowed to clear out his desk or say goodbye.
As Robert Spencer pointed out on a recent edition of “This Week in Jihad,” after every jihad attack, Muslims claim to be the victim. In this case, CAIR is having someone fired for associating with Robert Spencer, and is characterizing this attack as a righteous response to “hate.”
Unfortunately, this outrage will be met with a shrug by most people, because it hasn’t happened to them – yet.
Regardless, there should be absolutely zero tolerance for CAIR acting against anyone for any reason, let alone having someone fired.
“Columbus Community Shelter Board fires employee with anti-Muslim YouTube page,” by Danae King, Columbus Dispatch, March 18, 2025:
The Community Shelter Board employee who posted anti-Muslim content on his YouTube channel has been fired, according to a video he posted on his channel.
Thaddeus Billman, former operations administrator at the Community Shelter Board (CSB), announced his firing Sunday in a subscribers-only video on his channel, Reasoned Answers. The video was titled “Emergency Meeting on the future of Reasoned Answers.”
Community Shelter Board employee under investigation for anti-Islam YouTube channel
In the video, which costs $1.99 to view, Billman said he was fired on Friday, March 14, the day after he was placed on administrative leave on March 13….
On Friday, March 14, the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Ohio (CAIR-Ohio) called for Billman’s firing, condemning the content on his YouTub and condemned his running of the channel and employment at CSB as something that should “alarm us all” and is “unacceptable.”…
In previously posted free videos on the channel, Billman calls Muslims “crackhead clown individuals” and openly states that he is a fan of a man the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “one of America’s most prolific and vociferous anti-Muslim propagandists.”
Billman interviewed known anti-Muslim figure Robert Spencer in October on his YouTube channel.
Spencer has written a lot and spoken out often using rhetoric that’s anti-Muslim, said Saher Selod, director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU). Spencer’s work was quoted 64 times in the manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011 with bombs and guns, according to The New York Times.
Though Billman’s associated website www.reasonedanswers.com states he is a Christian apologist primarily concerned with proselytizing and converting Muslims to Christianity, Selod told The Dispatch that it’s concerning that Billman not only hosted Spencer but said he was a “fan” of him.
There are two other videos with Islam references on Billman’s YouTube channel for members only, one posted in October and titled: “My Ultra Secret Plans to Destroy Islam Revealed.” The other one, posted in December, is titled “Exciting new developments in the fight for truth” and the image of the video’s preview screen says “Islam Must Die.”
Billman told The Dispatch on Tuesday that he does not hate Muslims and believes he has received a “calling from God” to help “victims of an evil religion.”
