Oklahoma state Sen. Bennett: American Muslims are a ‘cancer in our nation that needs cutting out’

[Douglas Carpenter]

John Bennett (Tulsa World)

Oklahoma state Senator John Bennett (R) came under fire last week for comments he made about Muslims in America.

The Tulsa World reports that yesterday he doubled down on those comments, refusing to apologize “because I’m right, and they know I’m right.”

Bennett claims that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) “used political pressure to make me back down, but I didn’t and I’m not going to.”

“Is there a difference between moderate and radical Islam?” he asked, before answering, “I say, ‘No.’”

He then said that the goal of all Muslims is “the destruction of Western civilization from within. This is a cancer in our nation that needs to be cut out,” he added, but “the media is playing right into their hands.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/oklahoma-state-sen-bennett-american-muslims-are-a-cancer-in-our-nation-that-needs-cutting-out/

[MineralMan]

1. Dude, the goal of fundamentalist Christianity is the same. Exactly.

The Dominionist movement is all about destroying Western civilization from within. It's not the religion. It's the fundamentalists who want to control everyone's lives according to their narrow rules.

Screw all fundamentalists of every religion.

ETA: By Dude, I mean this moronic state senator, not the author of the OP.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Oklahoma really knows how to elect know-nothing lunkheads.

[cali]

3. pure unadulterated hateful bigotry from a hateful stupid bigot.

[joeybee12]

4. meth is a terrible drug...nt

[Takket]

5. I thought the media was working for the Communists??????????

I'm so confused!!!

[steve2470]

6. ............

sorry, someone had to do it eventually, UGH

[louis-t]

7. Jeez, I have an uncle who thinks the same way.

He wears a big cross around his neck all the time.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. This is such bullshit.

I'm so sick of these people.

[Initech]

9. Ask George Takei or any number of Japanese Americans...

Just how well that strategy worked for them during World War II. Derp.