Mike Huckabee didn’t just smear Muslims per se when he likened them to “uncorked animals” during his radio rant Monday (8/5/13), he suggested that those savage tendencies were the direct result of attending religious services.
Huckabee said:
I know we’re not supposed to say anything unkind about Islam. I mean, it’s politically incorrect. I get that. But could someone explain to me why it is that we tiptoe around a religion that promotes the most murderous mayhem on the planet in their so-called holiest days?
You know, if you’ve kept up with the Middle East, you know that the most likely time to have an uprising of rock throwing and rioting comes on the day of prayer on Friday. So the Muslims will go to the mosque, and they will have their day of prayer, and they come out of there like uncorked animals — throwing rocks and burning cars.
You know, I’m just pointing out that for all of the demands that we’re supposed to be so very polite, and - I’m not saying all Muslims are radical and I am not saying that all Muslims are violent. I’m not. But we as a government recognize that the most likely times for them to erupt in some type of terrorist activity, violent storming of an embassy, is on their holy days.
Huckabee went on to favorably compare Christian behavior after attending church. But Think Progress pointed out that there are logistical reasons for Muslims to protest on Fridays:
Huckabee was partially correct in noting a the large number of protests throughout the Middle East timed to take place on Fridays, as seen during the 2011 Arab Uprisings. The most recent upheaval in Egypt shared that trait as well. Rather than be due to some desire to do ill on their holy days, though, the timing has everything to do with the ability to turn people out onto the streets. If the majority of the the people you want to protest are gathered in a few places outside their homes already, it’s easier to rally them to protest in favor of democracy or to end military autocracy than on a day when that’s not the case.
“I know I’m likely to just get hammered for what I’ve just said,” Huckabee said near the end of the clip below.
And well he should.
Huckabee has a long record of hostility toward Muslims. This one should probably go to the top of the list.
You can listen to the audio here.
Huckabee clearly likened VIOLENT JIHADISTS, not all Muslims, to ‘uncorked animals.’
Violent jihadists are indeed like raging animals and Friday sermons have always been used to incite them into murderous rage. Make no mistake about it.
;^)
I have avoided corking animals ever since.
IOW, if Americans didn’t have something to “entertain” them after church services, they might find something political to do.
