Mike Huckabee is launching his own crusade against President Obama.
The former Arkansas governor and likely 2016
candidate blasted Obama Monday for comments he made last week about
violence in the name of both Christianity and Islam.
“Everything he does is against what Christians stand for,” Huckabee
said on the “Fox and Friends” morning talk show on Fox News Channel. “And he’s
against the Jews in Israel. The one group of people who can know they have his
undying, unfailing support would be the Muslim community.”
“He can be defensive of moderate Muslims and still be very clear in
saying that the fanatical Muslims are the heart and soul of the war that is
raging across the world,” Huckabee added. “This President couldn’t watch a
western from the 1950s and know the difference between the good guys and the
bad guys even if John Wayne was starring in the film.”
Huckabee, popular among social conservatives, was responding to Obama’s
comments at last week’s National Prayer Breakfast comparing the horrific
actions of ISIS militants to the “terrible” deeds done by Christians during the
Crusades.
“Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human
history,” Obama said, “And lest we get on our high horse and think that this is
unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the
Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home
country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of
Christ.”
Huckabee, a former minister, said he took offense to the parallel,
claiming that Christians, even during the time of the Crusades, were simply
responding to Muslim violence.
“How on Earth he could go back 1,000 years in history and pick up
something that Christians did in response to Muslim aggression and somehow
blame Christians for the burning of a Jordanian pilot, for the cutting off the
heads of children who are Christians? it's just absolutely stunning to me,” he
said.
Republicans have consistently criticized the White House for not
responding quickly or aggressively to ISIS attacks across Iraq and Syria,
including a brutal assault last week in which a group of militants burned a
Jordanian pilot alive.
“I assure you that a beheading is much worse than a sunburn,” Huckabee
said, accusing Obama of prioritizing climate change over fighting ISIS.
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