Quote: “Radical Islamists will be dancing on the street if Barack Obama is elected - Because of his middle name, “Hussein.” — Rep. Steve King, (R) Iowa
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Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, speaking to a local Iowa radio station, said that terrorists would dance in the streets if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is elected president — precisely because of not only Obama’s position on withdrawing US troops from Iraq, but because Obama’s middle name is “Hussein,” his father’s Muslim roots, and his appearance — or “optics,” as King put it. Read More
Steve King represents a heavily Republican constituency in Iowa, and has a record on inflammatory, racist, bigoted and xenophobic remarks. Here is a sample:
He has compared immigrants to “livestock” in proposing an electrified fence for the southern border, and has called undocumented immigration a “slow-moving terrorist attack.”
Rep. King has decried an “assault on Christmas” from “secularists” who want to “eradicate Christ from Christmas.” King refused to vote for an innocuous House resolution commending the Muslims on the Ramadan holiday. (To attack those who did, he turned around and proposed a resolution commemorating Christmas.
King released a “report” baselessly claiming that undocumented immigrants have murdered more Americans than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002.
King has praised Joe McCarthy as “a great American hero.”
After the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed, King derisively said he was now at a place where there are 72 virgins who “probably all look like Helen Thomas.”
