I don’t think there’s any anti-Muslim sentiment in the West today that would not be popular. Non-Muslims want Islam out of their countries and the sooner the better.
Politico: Newt Gingrich, one of the final candidates vying to become Donald Trump’s running mate, called for testing of “every person who is of a Muslim background” to determine whether they “believe in sharia” in response to Thursday’s attack in Nice, France.
Hours after Donald Trump declared that the attack in Nice constituted “war” against France and the United States, the former House speaker cast the struggle more broadly, saying: “Western civilization is in a war.”
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Gingrich then suggested that those who failed a test and were found to be adherents of “sharia law” should be deported from the country. The highly charged proposal echoes Trump’s controversial idea to institute a religious test for immigrants entering the country “until we figure out what is going on.”
Speaking to Fox News, Gingrich insinuated that such a test would weed out Islamic State sympathizers.
“We need to be fairly relentless about defining who our enemies are,” he said. “Anybody who goes on a website favoring ISIS, or Al Qaeda, or other terrorist groups, that should be a felony, and they should go to jail. Any organization which hosts such a website should be engaged in a felony. It should be closed down immediately.”
Gingrich also took sharp aim at President Barack Obama, arguing that his reluctance to be more aggressive in fighting terrorism was partially to blame for the Nice attack.
“This is the fault of Western elites who lack the guts to do what is right, to do what is necessary, and to tell us the truth, and that starts with Barack Obama,” Gingrich said.
The vice presidential hopeful also scoffed at the notion that the United States isn’t able to eradicate a group of “medieval barbarians” such as ISIS.
“I am sick and tired of being told that the wealthiest, most powerful civilization in history, all of Western civilization, is helpless in the face of a group of medieval barbarians who, for example, recently burned 20 young women to death — burned them to death because they wouldn’t have sex with them,” he said.
