Pat Robertson, "Islam is a dangerous infection that must be eliminated"

[Stuart G]

Source: Right Wing Watch

Today on “The 700 Club,” Pat Robertson said that countries like Belgium and France must respond with “violence” to the “infection” of Muslim immigrants, telling his co-host Terry Meeuwsen that these countries must fight Islam in the same way that a body fights a deadly disease. Otherwise, “Europe is doomed. Doomed!” he said, before adding: “And we have a president here in America who refuses to name it, refuses to identify it and refuses to give us what’s needed to kill the infection.” -

Robertson: Our bodies are amazingly resilient and they can throw off a small infection, something comes up and the body has mechanisms to deal with it and the body closes in on the invader and kills it and the body stays strong. But there comes a time if the infection is allowed to spread, and it will spread rapidly when the invader overtakes the healthy body, at which point there is sickness and then ultimately death. No society should allow some alien body to come to its midst that preaches terror, preaches overthrow, preaches violence and preaches another form of government. We shouldn’t have that. -

Read more: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-islam-dangerous-infection-must-be-eliminated

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This idiot said this yesterday. Such a stupid, insensitive, idiotic, statement to tens of thousands on live TV, must not go without being contested by sane people.

[hobbit709]

1. That same reasoning could be applied to him.

[randr]

2. Many people consider Robertson a boil on the ass of Christianity

[Stuart G]

3. I agree...He is a very very bad representation of any religion.

His stupidity at saying this is unmatched...

[Moostache]

16. He is a boil on the ass of HUMANITY!

These assclowns like Robertson are the ones who need to go away permanently. He is the living embodiment of the cruelty of nature, the mere fact that he lives and breathes while elsewhere in the world a child is fighting cancer or starvation is an afront to humanity, period.

And that's BEFORE you get to the rest of his bat-guano beliefs...

[MynameisBlarney]

4. "*Religion* is a dangerous infection that must be eliminated"

There, FTFY Pat.

[The Green Manalishi]

18. Agreed EOM

Islam sucks. So does every other religion. Bronze age bullshit that only hurts the human race. A mental illness, albeit a socially acceptable one.

No one with an invisible sky fairy friend should be let anywhere near impressionable children or a voting booth.

[TipTok]

24. Yup...

[yellowcanine]

5. Pat who? STFU Pat, no one gives a rat's *ss what you think.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Belief in spirits, fairies, imaginary friends, voices, religions, etc. is an infection. Period. nt

[Dustlawyer]

7. His God needs to let the Devil take him now!

I was waiting in a doctor's office and his show was on. His assistant was reading letters to him and he was answering his followers questions. Some elderly man wrote that he was having medical problems, but he had sworn to God that he would allow God to take care of him and would not see a doctor. He followed this for 20 years, but now that he was having issues he said his friends and family were all trying to get him to break his pledge to God and go see a doctor. Pat told him to keep his pledge and that God would heal him.

I went to the counter and told the staff what was being said on their waiting room TV and they quickly changed the channel.

[Jerry442]

8. When it comes to a racial scapegoater...

...the Europeans have seen the worst of the worst. Next to him, Pat's a pissant.

[mountain grammy]

9. Is he still alive? Is he still talking?

Go away, Pat Robertson, and take your religious hate with you. Not helping.

[Stuart G]

10. I believe tens of thousands watch him every day...perhaps more...I don't know the numbers??

He has many followers who actually believe that he is ... telling the truth...His views must be contested and shown to be lies to all..

[potone]

21. Does he still?

I know he used to, but I wonder what his viewership is now. It seems to me that he has more competition in the right-wing Christian community than he used to have. But that could be wishful thinking on my part; he has said not just so many hateful, but downright absurd things over the years (remember his attack on Teletubbies, or whatever they were called?), that I find it hard to believe that he is still listened to by many people.

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. He does still, but the 700 Club is a paid program

at least in Houston. He pays for it to be broadcast on one of our Fox affiliates.

[ck4829]

11. Eliminationist rhetoric is savage and dangerous, no matter the source, no matter the target

They aren't germs of an infection, they're human beings who simply have different beliefs than you; and they are themselves victims of militant fundamentalists who were propped up by a war YOU championed, Pat.

[NobodyHere]

12. Anyone who views treating women as slaves should be eliminated or converted

Anyone who believes in the death penalty for being gay should be eliminated or converted.

[ck4829]

14. Those individuals, certainly

But simply being "Muslim" does not equate belief in that.

[Judi Lynn]

13. Lying, greedy racists like Pat would be dangerous if anyone took them seriously. n/t

[Stuart G]

17. Sorry to report, many people do take him seriously, Some info on the "700 Club" Robertson's show.

700 Club..name of program that Robertson said this on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_700_Club

..In production since 1966, and having aired for over 38 years on the same network, under several iterations, The 700 Club is one of the longest-running television programs in broadcast history, and the longest continuously-run weekday program on cable television. It is hosted by Pat Robertson, Gordon Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, and Wendy Griffith.

I do think this statement is true, and that says something...but who knows how many people really watch this shit.

[Turborama]

15. Sadly, there are many members who feel no compunction to openly agree with this on DU3. d/t

[Roy Rolling]

19. Of course he would

That is his competition.

I'm sure Dillard's thinks Macy's is run by Satan. LOL

[scioto99]

20. The best protection against smallpox:

Let them catch cowpox instead.

There's a lesson in that. It worked for Christianity.

[Gore1FL]

22. All of the Abrahamic religions are dangerous infections that must be eliminated

A lot more than just Abrahamic religions, for that matter.

[trusty elf]

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[Jackie Wilson Said]

26. Pat is who you see when you look up hypocrite in the dictionary.

[mwrguy]

27. sorry pat, but the future is a lot more Islamic

[Warpy]

28. So is the hateful, perverted Christianity you're peddling, Pat

Now go away. Please. Retire. Just go away.