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.”
Agree! It’s pretty much obvious Jesus mentioned false prophets.
Did Bennett convert to Islam?
If he thought this way he was dead to me well before he died.
He should have been praying for forgiveness of all his sins, including being a lackluster time server in Congress for so many years.
Did Bennett convert to Islam? If he thought this way he was dead to me well before he died.
It was his Mormon "faith", cited in the story, if by "Faith" we now mean "suicidal tendencies".
Bennett displayed Glenn Beck kookiness as the grim reaper closed in on him. He didn't apologize to future Americans for the massive debt he and his country club (R)epublicrats inflicted on them. He didn't apologize for the state of war that he and his cohorts declared on the taxpaying citizenry. No, he apologized to Muslims!
My entire life I have had my Christian friends and family members beat me up for giving the benefit of the doubt and considering Mormons as fellow brothers and sisters. They were right, I was wrong, this cult is not redeemable and is dangerous IMHO.
Boy did we dodge a bullet by avoiding Romney. I do not want these cuckoo birds anywhere near the White House, ever!
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