Bryan Fischer has used his perch at the American Family Association to virulently attack Islam and its adherents for years, so it was only natural that he used his "Focal Point" radio program today to weigh in on the massacre of dozens of Muslim worshippers in New Zealand, saying that while he doesn't support the manner in which it was carried out, he does sympathize with the underlying objective.
"I hate Islam," he said. "I hate Islam because it is a danger to everything that is important to me: My faith, my country, my liberty, Christianity, civil rights. Everything that you and I treasure is threatened by Islam."
Fischer said that ruthlessly murdering Muslims "is the wrong way to go about it," but added that the shooter was "correct only in that Islam is something that does need to be stopped."
Fischer declared that those responsible for the attack should be tried and publicly executed, but noted that "vigilante justice" like this is almost inevitable because governments are not taking adequate steps to eliminate the threat posed by Islam.
"One of the things that happens to guys like this is, if they've got some loose wiring to begin with and they see that their government is not doing what is necessary to protect them—whether it is from illegal aliens, whether it is from jihadis, whether it's from vengeful Muslims—if they see that their government is not doing their jobs to promote justice, to carry out justice, to protect national security, then they're going to start thinking, 'Well, I can't count on the government to do it, so I'm going to have to take things into my own hands,'" Fischer said. "That's where you get vigilante justice ... and, unfortunately, I think we saw a case of that today in New Zealand."
