Rudy Giuliani Veterans’ Co-Chairman Resigns Over Muslim Remarks
A co-chairman for Rudy Giuliani’s veterans’ coalition in New Hampshire resigned Saturday after telling a British newspaper that Muslims need to be chased “back to their caves.”
The response was swift after the GOP presidential candidate faced questions Friday night about the comments, made by John Deady during a video interview with the Guardian at a Giuliani house party in Manchester, N.H. Deady was named co-chairman of the New Hampshire Veterans for Rudy over the summer.
“Mr. Deady offered his resignation from his volunteer position in the campaign and I accepted his resignation,” Giuliani New Hampshire Chairman Wayne Semprini said in a statement.
In the original Guardian interview, Deady said Giuliani is the best candidate to handle “one of the most difficult problems in current history” — “the rise of the Muslims.”
Click here to see the video of Deady’s comments for the Guardian.
He added: “We need to keep the feet to the fire and keep pressing these people until we defeat or chase them back to their caves or, in other words, get rid of them.”
Later in an interview with the Talking Points Memo Web site, Deady confirmed he made the statements and said he was referring to all Muslims.
“I don’t subscribe to the principle that there are good Muslims and bad Muslims,” Deady said in the article. “They’re all Muslims.”
Click here to read the Talking Points Memo article.
Giuliani’s campaign was quick to contain the damage in the final days before the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses and Jan. 8 New Hampshire primary.
Similar fallout occurred recently in the Hillary Clinton camp when New Hampshire adviser Bill Shaheen warned in an article that Democratic rival Barack Obama’s admissions of past drug use could provide easy fodder for the GOP if he were the nominee. Shaheen resigned after making the comments.
FOX News’ Carl Cameron and Mosheh Oinounou contributed to this report.
Islam is not a myth like any other religions, Islam challenges the world since 14 hundred years for it’s authenticity and truth.
Islam challenges the world and all human beings for pointing out one single fundemental of it which is against humnity. God Almighty says that they don’t read Quran with care or understanding, this is why they are confused and usually attack Islam.
Attacking ISlam is always not based on truth but on ignorance. It’s not that muslims are rising speicaly in the west, ,but It is Islam which is spreading and rising throughout the world specialy in the west.
Why?
Becuase
God Almighty in his final revelation the Holy Quran, has promissed that he Himself will prevail his religion over all the religions of the world, and this is something that we people are wintessing nowadays.
Although ISlam is being bombarded by westerners and the non-muslims by daily basis, but still ISlam is spreading unexpectedly.
Why?
This short question Why can lead each and everybody to the truth. So let’s not blame each other and find out whether ISlam is really devilish or it’s the true relegion of God almighty which was brought by all the prophets and specially the greatest Jesus Christ( Peace be upon Him and the greatest of all mankind Muhammad( Peace and blessing be upon him).
May God show the right path to Giuliani and his colleagues and everybody who seeks the truth…….
Trtuh will always prevail
Totti
I am not a muslim. I am not American. I am not even a practising Christian.
I come from a country, that has paganisim as the second largest religion in the country, and which proudly practisis divers customs from many nations. One of the largest immigrant population here are from South-East Asia and we have embraced (thought to varying degree) diffrent beliefs. I may not respect every religion but I try to respect people’s choices and keep my comments close to myself. For, to insult anyone’s religious believes, is a crime in itself. If I were a cruel person I would point out that no religion has a “clean” history or is free from extreme groups.
If I were a cruel person…I might ask if the United States has ever apologised for its actions against the nations of Native Americans ? Or if the Vatican has recconised that the Crusades were nothing more then a ploy to get rich ? The Inquistion or how popes of the past even killed to get elected or that they had mistresses and children ?
There are probably more that you can find in history…but if you live in the past then you are damned to repeat it.
“Caution should be held in the company of a soul” - Icelandic saying
“The first victim, in every war, is the truth” - ???
Outraged at weak Muslims. Muslims will just never get it! Rudy’s guy grouped you with the terrorists because peacful Muslims never openly indict the terrorist Muslims - cowardice. You DON’T earn or deserve to be treated different because ……
If just one Christian does some minor act without intention that offends some devout Muslim I get grouped with that Christian for ever and ever - even after I decry the offensive act. At least I am worthy of different judgement because I openly oppose the Offenders actions. BUT, Muslims always group us all as Infidels.
Muslims - get used to being treated as the terrorist until you openly oppose & clean up your terrorist buddies of Islam.
Enough is enough!
he shoulda been fired not resigned for these disgusting remarks imagine if somebody said the exactly the same thing about jews there woulda been an uproar he sounds exactly like the nazis did.This just goes to show the double standards I think whats even more scary is the support he has evident in these comments and the blatant lies here being spewed out you ignoramuses needs to seriously educate yourselves on islam before speaking crap.
If you haven’t, read the koran. You’ll see islam isn’t being hijacked. The minority of muslims who are terrorists aren’t twisting what it says. THEY ARE FOLLOWING IT TO THE LETTER. Read chap 9 which was recited last by mohammad and supercedes all previous peaceful verses.
-SCW