Former 2UE presenter Michael Smith made the comments on Thursday during his regular guest spot with 2GB host Ben Fordham.
Smith was discussing the recent controversy over a talk the Festival of Dangerous Ideas had booked and later cancelled with a Muslim activist, titled "Honour killings are morally justified".
He compared the festival's invitation to Uthman Badar to asking the leader of the Ku Klux Klan to speak and said the founder of Islam was "...a man who promoted the idea that it was OK to marry a six-year-old and consummate the marriage when the little girl was nine."
The broadcaster had been due to fill in for afternoons presenter Chris Smith from Monday for three weeks but on Saturday wrote on his website that 2GB program director David Kidd had called and cancelled the booking, telling him he couldn't call a deity a pedophile.
Smith pointed out that he'd made similar comments on 2UE in 2011 and had been acquitted of a complaint of inciting hatred and of factual inaccuracy by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
Smith said on his website he stood by his comments.
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