Santorum: Would Rauf's Mosque Be OK If He Moved It?

Frank Gaffney asked just that question to former Senator Rick Santorum today on Secure Freedom Radio, and his answer was an emphatic “no.”

Santorum said:

Islam is a faith and I would agree that people of faith have the right to build a religious institution- as long as it comports with the zoning laws and all the other laws… In this case though what we have is an Imam who believes not only in the “religious” part of Islam, the faith and the relationship with Allah. What he is trying to accomplish is political Islam, so he has a political agenda which is Shariah. That’s the most important thing for people to understand. That unlike Christianity which is a faith that is about the next world, the next kingdom, the relationship between you and your maker. And that while there certainly are moral components to Christianity that apply to living your life like the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments, there is not a political code,there is not a governmental structure… there is not the kind of detailed structure of how to run a worldly kingdom in Christianity that there is in Islam and that’s what Shariah is, and that’s what this man is advocating. So you have not just someone who’s advocating a religious doctrine but he is also advancing a political doctrine under the guise and protection of religion, and that is problematic.

Listen to the whole segment below.

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