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Allen West to Muslim questioner: 'Don't try to blow sunshine up my butt'

by theGrio | February 22, 2011 at 1:39 PM
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From Huffington Post:

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a fiery freshman Tea Party-backed congressman, appeared irritated at a town hall meeting Monday, when a Muslim questioner asked him to note the passage in the Quran where it commands Muslims “to carry out attacks against Americans and innocent people.” In his response to the man’s defense of moderate Islam, West told him not to “try to blow sunshine up my butt.”

In his explanation of his prior comments on the nature of the religion, West pointed to the Ft. Hood massacre, the attacks on 9/11 and his own personal experience as an Army colonel in Iraq as reasons

“Don’t try to blow sunshine up my butt,” he told the questioner, Nezar Hamze, Executive Director of the Council for American Islamic Relations, the Shark Tank blog reports.

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