Howard Dean: Iran is not “a Muslim country”

In an interview with Breitbart, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean defended Democrat’s refusal to link Islam with terror. This has become standard for the Democrat party. What he said afterward, however, is raising quite a few eyebrows.

Breitbart News: I understand exactly where you’re coming from. But on the reverse side of that, you have the Islamic Republic of Iran which does use religion as a means to execute its citizens.

Howard Dean: I agree. And that’s exactly why I don’t want to do it. I think Iran is the farthest thing from an Islamic Republic, with some of the highest rates of execution in the world, torturing political prisoners, one of the worst human rights records in the world, a destructive force in the world. There’s nothing good about the Islamic Republic of Iran. And it’s not an Islamic republic; it’s a republic that’s been hijacked by thugs and murderers. And I think the legitimacy and the real government of Iran would be a secular government, which treated women equally with men.

Breitbart News: And just a follow up on that, do you think there is a nation that is governed by Islamic principles, or that considers itself to be majority Muslim, and that is truly an embodiment of what a Muslim nation should be like?

Howard Dean:I think Indonesia is close. There are terrorists in Indonesia but they’re not being embraced or being played footsie with by the government. I think there are other countries…

This refusal to accept that terrorism could possibly be linked to Islam is the Democrat’s biggest mistake. They would rather coddle the religion and countries in the Middle East that allow terror to thrive than face the issue with an iron fist.

Source: Breitbart