Campaign Statements — Islamophobia

Tuesday September 25, 2012

“we are a country that has welcomed people of every race and every faith”

For as the city outside these walls makes clear, we are a country that has welcomed people of every race and every faith. We are home to Muslims who worship across our country. We not only respect the freedom of religion, we have laws that protect individuals from being harmed because of how they look or what they believe.

CATEGORIES: Barack Obama | Islamophobia |

Friday September 14, 2012

“I think people should have the common courtesy…not to offend other peoples’ faiths”

I think the whole film is a terrible idea. I think him making it, promoting it showing it is disrespectful to people of other faiths. I don’t think that should happen. I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment– the good judgment– not to be– not to offend other peoples’ faiths. It’s a very bad thing, I think, this guy’s doing.

CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Mitt Romney |

Thursday February 23, 2012

“This president has gone so far at appeasing radical Islamists.”

“There seems to be nothing that radical Islamists can do to get Barack Obama’s attention in a negative way and he is consistently apologizing to people who do not deserve the apology of the president of the United States period. And, candidly, if Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, doesn’t feel like apologizing then we should say good bye and good luck, we don’t need to be here risking our lives and wasting our money on somebody who doesn’t care…This president has gone so far at appeasing radical Islamists that he is failing in his duty as commander in chief.”

CATEGORIES: Afghanistan | Islamophobia | Newt Gingrich |

Monday January 16, 2012

“We’re under attack by people.”

“The right course for America is to recognize we’re under attack. We’re under attack by people, whether they’re Al Qaeda or other radical violent jihadists around the world, and we’re going to have to take action around the world to protect ourselves. And hopefully we can do it as we did with Osama bin Laden, as opposed to going to war as we had to do in—in the case of—of Iraq. The right way, Congressman Paul, in my view, is—to keep us from having to go to those wars is to have a military so strong that no one would ever think of testing it. That’s the kind of military we have to have, and we have to pursue our interests around the world.”

CATEGORIES: American Exceptionalism | Iraq | Islamophobia | Mitt Romney | War on Terror |

Saturday January 07, 2012

“We’re…not being honest with the American public as to who the enemy is…and why they hate us.”

“This president has sanitized every defense document, everything. The word radical Islam doesn’t appear anywhere. Why? Because we’re trying to fight this politically correct war and not being honest with the American public as to who the enemy is, how virulent they are and why they hate us and what we must do to stop them.”

CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Rick Santorum | War on Terror |

Saturday January 07, 2012

“There’s a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side”

“Should the Catholic Church be driven out of providing charitable services in the District of Columbia because it won’t give in to secular bigotry?”

CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Newt Gingrich |

Thursday December 15, 2011

“They hate us because of who we are and what we believe in.”

“Iran is not any other country. It is a country that is ruled by the equivalent of al Qaeda on top of this country. They are a radical theocracy. The principle virtue of the Islamic Republic of Iran, according to President Ahmadinejad, is not freedom, opportunity, it’s martyrdom.

The idea, Ron, that mutual assured destruction, like the policy during the Cold War with the Soviet Union would work on Iran when their principle virtue is martyrdom, is—mutual assured destruction with respect to Iran would not be any kind of, you know, idea of preventing a war. It would be an inducement to a war.

This is what their objective is. Their objective is to in fact create a calamity. This is what their theology teaches. They believe that it is their mission to take on the West. They don’t hate us because of what we do or the policies we have. They hate us because of who we are and what we believe in.

And we need to make sure that they do not have a nuclear weapon. And we should be working with the state of Israel right now. We should use covert activity. And we should be planning a strike against their facilities and say, if you do not open up those facilities and not close them down, we will close them down for you.”

CATEGORIES: Iran | Islamophobia | Rick Santorum | War on Terror |

Thursday December 15, 2011

“They want to do us harm because we are bombing them.”

“But to declare war on 1.2 billion Muslims and say all Muslims are the same, this is dangerous talk. Yeah, there are some radicals, but they don’t come here to kill us because we’re free and prosperous. Do they go to Switzerland and Sweden? I mean, that’s absurd. If you think that is the reason, we have no chance of winning this. They come here and explicitly explain it to us. The CIA has explained it to us. It said they come here and they want to do us harm because we’re bombing them.”

CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Ron Paul | War on Terror |

Wednesday December 14, 2011

“Sharia is a mortal threat to…the United States as we know it.”

“Sharia is a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States and the world as we know it.”

CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Newt Gingrich |