Gaffney suggested that Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan at the time, was submitting to Sharia when Petraeus condemned the burning of a Quran by a Florida pastor.
Gaffney has accused a bipartisan array of political elites of being secretly tied to the Islamist organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood, including longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and conservative heavyweights Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan.
Gaffney has objected to Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Andre Carson (D-Ind.) serving on the House Intelligence Committee because they are Muslim and therefore, he said, likely to leak information to the Muslim Brotherhood.
While the rest of the world marveled at the ignorance that led authorities in Irving, Texas, to mistake 14-year-old Ahmed Mohameds homemade clock for a bomb last year, Gaffney wrote that the school did the right thing by suspending Ahmed and calling the police. His group later honored Beth Van Duyne, the mayor of Irving and a Sharia alarmist, with the Freedom Flame Award for her efforts to protect the Constitution.
Gaffney hosted white nationalist Jared Taylor on his radio show last fall and praised Taylors American Renaissance website as wonderful. During the show, Taylor challenged the idea that the desperate people now flooding into Europe are refugees, calling that description a myth touted by liberals. When asked about the consequences of these individuals moving to Europe, Taylor said, We have unleashed now what would not be an exaggeration to call almost demonic forces.
When Trump proposed a ban on Muslims entry into the U.S last year, Gaffney quickly jumped to his defense. Mr. Trump has clearly picked up on a conviction increasingly shared by millions of Americans, he wrote on his groups website. They have begun to see the Obama administration has long been downplaying, misrepresenting and mishandling a threat more and more of us see plainly.
When Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) invited Broward County Deputy Sheriff Nazar Hamze to this years State of the Union address, Gaffney accused Hamze of being tied to a group that is directly linked to Hamas. He was referring to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based advocacy group.
Gaffney accused Pope Francis of having rabidly anti-American views after the pope said in February that its not Christian to urge the deportation of undocumented immigrants and vow to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
Should we honestly leave our country that we were raised in.
