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Related: About this forumSteve King singles out Somali Muslims over pork
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/22/steve-king-muslims-pork-664949Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Friday that he doesnt want Somali Muslims working at meat-packing plants in his district because they want consumers of pork to be sent to hell.
In a Breitbart News radio interview, the eight-term congressman, known for his inflammatory anti-immigrant rhetoric, said his views were shaped by a conversation with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), whom he called the lead Muslim in Congress.
King said Ellison told him that Muslims would require a special dispensation from an imam in order to be able to handle pork in one of his districts meat-packing plants. The rationale is that if infidels are eating this pork, [the Muslims] are not eating it, King said. So as long as theyre preparing this pork for infidels, it helps send them to hell and it must make Allah happy.
I dont want people doing my pork that wont eat it, let alone hope I go to hell for eating pork chops, he concluded.
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Moostache
(10,163 posts)sinkingfeeling
(53,020 posts)Docreed2003
(17,816 posts)I seriously doubt that Congressman Elllison uttered the word "infidel", but whatever plays to your racist base Steve
rurallib
(63,207 posts)on her campaign.
Unfortunately I think that keeping the racist asshole on may be good for her campaign in Iowa these days.
VMA131Marine
(4,653 posts)Jews,
Seventh Day Adventists
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Clearly Steve King is advocating a religious test for employment that would be illegal under the First Amendment. It's funny that he wants to do this, but is all in favour of religious exemptions for pharmacists who don't want to dispense birth control or people who don't want to serve gay people.
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)So he's encouraging employers to break the law.
Anyway, doesn't Iowa have enough pork problems with the tariffs causing millions to the pork producers? Factor in the other ag products and it's even more.
I wonder if he's trying to distract from the tariffs taking hold starting July 6.
dhill926
(16,953 posts)what the hell is wrong with this guy?
rurallib
(63,207 posts)dhill926
(16,953 posts)guess my sarcasm detector is malfunctioning with the border situation
dhill926
(16,953 posts)DBoon
(23,068 posts)Money speaks
IADEMO2004
(5,885 posts)Monsanto should genetically alter pigs to self-butcher themselves.
Come on Iowa we have to be better than this.