Posted on 05/19/2016 1:31:24 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
This story epitomizes how hysterical and thoughtless the public discourse is nowadays. Trump is presented by the late Bob Bennett and the Daily Beast as an “Islamophobe” — someone with an irrational hatred of or fear of Islam and Muslims. In reality, he hasn’t said anything about Islam at all except that clearly there is a “problem,” and there obviously is. He has called for a temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration as an attempt to stop Islamic jihadis from entering the country. Did Bennett address that problem? Not from the looks of this story. Did Bennett propose an alternative method for keeping jihadis out of the country? No, and neither have any of the others who have likened Trump to Hitler for suggesting this. We are apparently just supposed to allow Muslims into the country without question, and accept that there will be jihad mass murder attacks in the U.S., because the alternative — appearing “racist,” even though Islam is not a race — is far worse. Death before political incorrectness.
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“Dying GOP Senator Apologizes to Muslims for Donald Trump,” by Tim Mak, Daily Beast, May 18, 2016:
Bob Bennett spent his last days letting Muslims know how sorry he was that an Islamophobe had become his party’s all-but-certain nominee.
It was not a moment for self-pity.
Instead, with a slight slurring in his words, Bennett drew them close to express a dying wish: “Are there any Muslims in the hospital?” he asked.
“I’d love to go up to every single one of them to thank them for being in this country, and apologize to them on behalf of the Republican Party for Donald Trump,” Bennett told his wife and son, both of whom relayed this story to The Daily Beast.
He mentioned it briefly in a hospital interview with the Deseret News, a Utah news outlet. “There’s a lot of Muslims here in this area. I’m glad they’re here,” the former senator told the newspaper in April, describing them as “wonderful.”
“In the last days of his life this was an issue that was pressing in his mind… disgust for Donald Trump’s xenophobia,” Jim Bennett said. “At the end of his life he was preoccupied with getting things done that he had felt was left undone.”
“He would go to people with the hijab [on] and tell them he was glad they were in America, and they were welcome here,” his wife said. “He wanted to apologize on behalf of the Republican Party.”
Sounds like Bennett is right where he needs to be.
This story is not believable at all.
That’s new.
Keep spinning until your final breath.
If I were on my deathbed, the last things I’d be worried about are offended terrorists.
Adios Bennet.
Wrong place, wrong ‘cult’ sorry about a person dying, but this is the most ridiculous story I've read for a long time!!!
Still apparently not a good manager of his time or issues.
Here are another couple sources:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/18/bob-bennett-apologized-muslims-donald-trump-final-/
“He would go to people with the hijab [on] and tell them he was glad they were in America, and they were welcome here,” his wife said.
Bennett would wear a hijab while apologizing to muzzies?
Terminal WTF!!!?
And the GOP-E wonders why its candidates keep getting shot down?
Perhaps it is bad luck to speak ill of the dead, but I shall do so. May he rot in Hell.
These muslim apologists and sympathizers know full well that islam has been, for almost 1400 years, nothing but an insane cult of death and destruction, the most sub-human savagery ever cursed upon the earth.
Muslims will never rise to a human level of existence unless and until they truly renounce that evil existence, become something else, and fully join the human side of the war to save human civilization from muslim insanity.
Bizarre. . .Absolutely Bizarre!
The Daily Beast an ultra left wing blog is the source of this story. That is why the story is either made up or way over exaggerated.
Direct quotes from Bennett’s family members to NBC news.
Legit story.
What a way to go.
What a useless POS. The only ones who need to apologize are the muzzies, not Trump.
Trump SAID something. Muzzies MURDER.
Well-stated, meadsjn. Thanks for your post. Worth repeating.
May he rot in Hell.
Here is some research on Bennett. A real man of the people!! Sarc> Voted for TARP to bail out those unfortunate Wall Street banksters, but against minimum wage hikes, food stamps and unionization. He was for Bush wiretapping and the PATRIOT Act, and against Medicare negotiating drug prices because it might cut into pharma profits. He was for every job-killing trade agreement they put in front of him, but denied children access to medical care. He voted no on limiting the tours of duty for soldiers in Iraq and on granting habeas corpus rights to detainees in Guantanamo Bay, and no to emergency funds for Katrina victims.
Sounds like an NWO RINO globalist to me.
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