Muslim Civil Rights Group Asks Huckabee To Apologize For “Infidel” Comments

Yesterday, we told you about a Tennessee church that was allowing Muslims to use their facilities for worship while their mosque was undergoing construction. The church’s decision sparked a debate on Fox News over whether such a choice was misguided.

Weighing in on the debate, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee made no bones about where he stood on the matter:

If the purpose of a church is to push forth the gospel of Jesus Christ, and then you have a Muslim group that says that Jesus Christ and all the people that follow him are a bunch of infidels who should be essentially obliterated, I guess I have a hard time understanding that.

That comment has drawn criticism from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group. In a statement released Monday, the Council suggested that Huckabee do more research into Islam, calling his comment not only insensitive, but inaccurate as well. The group’s national executive director, Nihad Awad, pointed to a verse within the Koran to prove his point: “Say: ‘We believe in God and the revelation given to us and to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and it is to Him that we surrender ourselves'” (2:136).

Watch Huckabee’s original comments, via Fox News, below:

h/t The Hill

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