The chairman of the Big Stone County GOP in Minnesota just lost his day job, after his Facebook posts about Muslim Americans received a larger audience than he intended.
GOP official Jack Whitley was fired from his post at Hardware Hank for publishing screeds that called American Muslims “parasites” that should convert to Christianity or be killed, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.
“They are muslims, they are terrorist (sic), we know where they are from, we know where their buddies are, we know where thier mosque’s (sic) are, we know millions of these parasites travel to Mecca every year and when…FRAG ‘EM!” he wrote in one post.
The state GOP condemned his remarks as “outrageous,” and on Monday it was his employer’s turn. Bob and Sue Kulbeik, owners of Hardware Hank, fired Whitley from their store after confronting him over his remarks, according to the Tribune.
“Everything Jack said was so contrary to the way my husband and I conduct our life and the way we believe and think that we just couldn’t tolerate it,” Sue Kulbeik told the paper.
“We even asked him, ‘Is that really how you feel?’ And he said, ‘Absolutely,'” she added. “We said, ‘You’re no longer needed at our store.'”
Whitley still has his party position, however, until Big Stone County Republicans vote him out of office, according to the Tribune.
