At a health care town hall today with Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA), a man, who identified himself as a Republican, stood up to ask about the “many problems with this Obama government,” one of which is the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Questioner: What about this Guantanamo closure? I don’t want these criminals to come over here into our area and escape, and we find that a bunch of innocent people are murdered. And that’s what’s gonna happen. Didn’t you ever read the Koran, Senator?
Specter: The Koran? No.
Questioner: I have read the Koran. And the Koran says that all unbelievers will be executed. Killed. That’s why I cannot support Islam. I believe in the Jewish and Hebrew Christian philosophy, so I support that. I don’t support any other direction because — if somebody wants to read the Koran, you can find it. I can tell you where it is.
Specter: Well, the gentleman raises a question about what the Koran says about destroying the Christian Judaic world. And there’s no doubt that there’s a big problem of terrorism, and the threat which we saw carried out on 9/11. Well, on the issue of Guantanamo, the Congress has spoken to insist that Guantanamo be kept open until there is a plan.
