Posted on 09/04/2014 6:53:30 PM PDT by markomalley
OKLAHOMA CITY — The leader of the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Wednesday called on Republican leaders to repudiate remarks made by state Rep. John Bennett on his private Facebook account.
Adam Soltani, CAIR Oklahoma executive director, is also asking the Republican from Sallisaw to apologize for the remarks.
A Monday Facebook post from Bennett reads: “The Quran clearly states that non Muslims should be killed. Arab is the ethnicity, not Muslim or Islam. Be wary of the individuals who claim to be ‘Muslim American.’ Be especially wary if you are Christian.”
Soltani said Bennett took the phrase out of context. “This is something revealed in the context of them being at war,” Soltani said. “This is when you meet in battle. It doesn’t say just go out and kill people.”
He said elected leaders should not be seeking to instill fear of Islam or Muslims.
“Anti-Muslim bigotry and statements that promote misunderstanding and incite hatred toward a minority group have no place in the Oklahoma Republican Party,” Soltani wrote in a letter to Bennett. “Individuals elected to represent the people of Oklahoma should be held accountable for such extremist, inaccurate and intolerant views.”
Bennett, 40, said he has no intention of apologizing, adding he was referring to Muslims who hold extreme views.
Bennett, who served in the Marines for 21 years, said he was trying to inform and educate Americans as to what is really going on. He said he has been in the Middle East a few times and is aware of the atrocities inflicted by extremists in the name of religion.
“I am not against all Arabs or people who follow the religion of Islam,” he said. “The religion has been changed. It used to be peaceful.”
Dave Weston, Oklahoma Republican Party chairman, called CAIR’s criticism of Bennett disingenuous.
If the United States were ruled by Islam, Christians and Jews would have to pay a tax to practice their faith, Weston said. Those who do not pay are beheaded, Weston said.
“Islam coexists peacefully with nonbelievers only if those skeptics abide by their unalterable stipulations,” Weston said.
“Mr. Weston’s comments are as false and easily disproven as the notion that the Earth is flat,” Soltani said.
“Actual Muslims worldwide including CAIR, have repudiated and condemned ISIS and its heretical assertions about our faith.”
Later in the day, Bennett issued a news release saying the terrorist activities of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria could soon reach the United States. He was critical of how President Obama has handled the situation, saying Obama has ignored confirmed Islamic terrorist movements.
I am suspicious of muslims too.
Now repudiate me so I can get on with suspecting islamderthals.
Egypt criticizes CAIR for being a Muzzie Bro outlet of Islamic Lies.
Isn’t CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in some terrorist case?
Should be mentioned every time the name is.
When Christian churches and Jewish Synagogues are catering to thriving memberships in the heart of Mecca, I will listen to what the Council of Angry Islamic Radicals has to say.
Until then, they need to sit down and STFU!
The future must not belong to those who worship the “prophet” Mohammed.
Dear CAIR,
Shove it.
Good for Bennet. It is refreshing to see a little non PC once in awhile. F the Muzzie MOFOs.
We don’t really care how they do it back East. We tell it like it is here in Oklahoma.
Oldplayer
baconisgooddogsarenicewomenarepeople!
he future must not belong to those who worship the “prophet” Mohammed.
peas.....be upon them...several TONS of Frozen Peas should work WELL
I liked how they responded back.
Oviously CAIR thought these were McCain like Republicans who joined those who condemned those Conservatives who criticized Hillary Clinton’s muslim girlfriend connection to the muslim brotherhood.
Sorry no sympathy for the devil, Muzzies. You come across our borders carrying bombs to kill our citizens and you will see a different side of Americans you’ve never seen before. We are just as capable of delivering justice with righteous anger as you are of delivering evil and violence. We just keep it under wraps for when its appropriate and that hour is approaching.
They’re starting to stir real anger in the world.
The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military. . . . The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.— Majid Khadduri
The Quranic Concept of War - JOSEPH C. MYERS
When these moderate Muslims start going to the middle east to fight against the ISIS types, I’ll believe them.
Mudslides are the same kind of evil anti-American vermin that Nazis and Communists are. Indeed, Mudslimes were some of the Nazis’ most passionate collaborators in the “Final Solution to the Jewish Problem.” Indeed, it’s very hard to see how a Mudslime can be a loyal American.
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