More Allen West Xenophobia

Rep. Allen West attacked Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison on the The Shalom Show. West

PERITZ: Since you’re with a new crowd, people you haven’t really met before, and will be very closely associating with in the future, including Keith Ellison, who supports Islam, how will you manage that, if I may ask, because it’s not really easy to be polite with individuals one totally disagrees with, which I believe may be the case.

WEST: Well I think it’s most important that I stand upon the principles that people elected me to go to Washington, DC and represent them on Capitol Hill. So that when you run into someone that is counter, or someone that really does represent the antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established, you’ve got to be able to defeat them intellectually in debate and discourse, and you to just have to be able to challenge each and every one of their assertions very wisely and very forthright.

Host Richard Peritz makes the insanely stupid attack that Ellison supports Islam. The Islamic faith is Ellison's religion. Boxing great Muhammad Ali is a believer in the Islamic faith. Peritz would be correct to someone anti-semitism if was brought up as a reason he should not hold office. Peritz is practicing a form of bigotry that has been used against Jews and other ethnic groups. Being a Muslim does not make a person a terrorist.

West rants his Tea Party constitutional nonsense.

So that when you run into someone that is counter, or someone that really does represent the antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established.

West and other African-Americans would still be enslaved if we went back to what the Founding Fathers wanted. The Constitution was ratified with this provision in 1787. Slaves were considered 3/5 of a person.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

West has no idea what the Founding Fathers wrote in the Constitution. West's constitutional spiels are all sound and fury.