Newt Gingrich, asked about polls showing many Republicans in the South incorrectly identify President Obama as a Muslim, said it was the president’s fault for behaving in some sort of Islamic fashion.
“Why does the president behave the way that people would think that?” Gingrich said, per Politico. “You have to ask why would they believe that? It’s not cause they’re stupid. It’s because they watch the kind of things I just described to you.”
Gingrich added that he, nonetheless, did not doubt Obama’s faith.
“He went to a Christian church for over 20 years,” he said. “He was listening to the sermons. The fact is I take him at his word but I think it is very bizarre that he is desperately concerned to apologize to Muslim religious fanatics while they are killing young Americans while at the same time going to war against the Catholic Church and against every right to live Protestant organization in the country. I just think it’s a very strange value system.”
