{"id":3931,"date":"2011-01-25T09:34:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T17:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2011-01-25T09:34:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T17:34:04","slug":"west-shows-republican-hate-and-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/25\/west-shows-republican-hate-and-bigotry\/","title":{"rendered":"West Shows Republican Hate and Bigotry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Few Republicans are more offensive than Allen West.&#160; During his campaign one of his top aides called for the violent overthrow of the US Government, should voters fail to elect West.&#160; Instead of firing her, West doubled down.&#160; West is also most offensive in his attacks on gays and Muslims.&#160; Here is his attack on Keith Ellison, followed by a hilarious video that rebuts his prime contention.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>During a recent episode [Teabuggery delinked] of The Shalom Show, host Richard Peritz asked freshman Rep. Allen West (R-FL) how he planned to cope with regular interactions with political opponents, in particular Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), who the host described as someone that \u201csupports Islam.\u201d In his reply, West painted Ellison as someone who \u201c<strong>really does represent the antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established<\/strong>\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Watch it:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ceZxIEE9WU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" type=\"text\/html\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"25Allen-West-Constitution\" border=\"0\" alt=\"25Allen-West-Constitution\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/25Allen-West-Constitution.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"268\" \/>West has a long history of offensive rhetoric aimed at Islam. He has <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/08\/18\/allen-west-islam\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that displays of the \u201ccoexist\u201d bumper sticker, which has the symbols of many major religions, including Islam, \u201crepresents something that would give away our country. Would give away who we are, our rights and freedoms and liberties because they are afraid to stand up and confront that which is the antithesis, anathema of who we are.\u201d West has also <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/08\/18\/allen-west-islam\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that Islam is \u201ca totalitarian theocratic political ideology, it is not a religion,\u201d and he believes [Teabuggery delinked] terrorism is fundamental to Islam: \u201cthis is not a perversion. <strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">They are doing exactly what this book [the Quran] says<\/font><\/strong>.\u201d West even criticizes Republicans who do not declare full opposition to Islam. \u201cGeorge Bush got snookered into going into some mosque, taking his shoes off, and then saying that Islam was a religion of peace,\u201d he <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/08\/18\/allen-west-islam\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> during his congressional campaign\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/01\/24\/west-ellison-antithesis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">West is pictures here holding a copy of the Constitution, which Republicans love to display, whenever they would undo it.&#160; Perhaps West has never read that the 1st Amendment guarantees Ellison and other Muslims the right to worship as they choose.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">One of West\u2019s key tenants is that Islam is evil because of things contained in the Quran.&#160; Now West claims that every word in the Bible is inspired by God.&#160; Here\u2019s a hilarious response to Republican hatred for gays that applies equally well here.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vpj1kdIvIxs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" type=\"text\/html\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I still want to own a Canadian. \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few Republicans are more offensive than Allen West.&#160; During his campaign one of his top aides called for the violent overthrow of the US Government, should voters fail to elect West.&#160; Instead of firing her, West doubled down.&#160; West is also most offensive in his attacks on gays and Muslims.&#160; Here is his attack on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/25\/west-shows-republican-hate-and-bigotry\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}