A Seattle radio station is taking some heat after an insensitive message about Muslims appeared on its Twitter account yesterday. The message -- posted on the Twitter page of 107.7 The End -- has since been taken down and the station has apologized for the incident.

"We abhor last nights twitter hacking. The End brand in no way condones the comments and apologizes. Pswrd & security measures changed," the station wrote in a follow-up Tweet this morning.

It is unclear how the "hack" occurred and who posted the message. Many of the top staffers at the station are on vacation this week. An assistant engineer at the station -- owned by radio giant Entercom -- said he was unaware of the issue. We have a call into the station to find out more details.

The issue does raise questions about how companies utilize social media and who has access to those broadcast channels.

The original message read:

"Not all Muslims are terrorists—but nearly all terrorists are Muslims. Time to accept profiling America."

Dan Savage at The Stranger pointed out the Tweet, which created a debate among his readers about religious profiling.

The End has dabbled in non-music messages on Twitter in the past, writing about the Lakewood police shootings, The World Cup Draw and Seattle sports. But it hasn't touched on such a politically-charged topic at least in the past couple of months, and the vast majority of its Twitter musings relate to the entertainment business.

The station has more than 2,400 followers on Twitter.

UPDATE: Andrew Harms, assistant program director at 107.7, declined to comment about the issue and referred questions to program director Mike Kaplan who was traveling. Harms did confirm that he posted the comment below on The Slog, The Stranger's blog. It read in part:

There is NO way anyone from this station would have posted anything along these lines. 1) THERE IS NO ONE HERE! Everyone is out this week for the holiday's. We are running a "Best of Decade" special all week long. 2) We aren't that kind of radio station. Why would a mainstream rock radio station, who focuses on SOLELY on music and pop culture, send out anything along these lines EVER? Especially in SEATTLE! It wouldn't happen. It doesn't make any sense.

We've yet to hear from Kaplan. But Seattle Weekly received this statement from him:

We feel someone on the outside either grabbed an account left open or gained access to the password. We've taken a few extra precautions (changing passcode, immediate activity alerts) to hopefully blunt any attack like this again. If we learned one thing it's to eavesdrop more frequently during specialty pre-recorded programming between the holidays, weekends, etc.

UPDATE II: I heard back from Kaplan who said the Tweets came from someone outside the organization.

I don't know for certain at this point who composed the tweets but am confident they're not from staff members. We're doing our due diligence and also taking measures to make sure the account doesn't leave our control again.

Editor's Note: I've changed the headline and part of the text to reflect that this was a case of religious insensitivity, not a racial issue as I first wrote. I apologize for the error and I appreciate the readers who brought it to our attention.