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John Guandolo: The US Should Bomb Mecca in Retaliation for Pensacola Shooting

Anti-Muslim activist John Guandolo (Image from video of South Carolina Tea Party Coalition's 2018 convention)

On the most recent episode of his "Understanding The Threat" radio program, disgraced former FBI agent and anti-Islam conspiracy theorist John Guandolo said that the United States should bomb the holy city of Mecca in retaliation for the recent shooting by a Saudi aviation student at the naval base in Pensacola, Florida.

Guandolo is a radical right-wing activist who trains law enforcement agencies around the country to identify seemingly anyone with dark skin and a beard as an Islamic terrorist, and who has long insisted that non-Christians should be barred from holding public office and that critics of President Trump should be tried and executed for treason.

"Even an attack on a U.S. military base isn't enough to smack any of our leaders on the side of the head like a two-by-four to wake them the heck up," Guandolo said. "The federal government is completely and utterly incapable of fixing this. They're incompetent."

"[Even after] an organized attack where people are filming a Saudi Air Force officer killing Americans on a naval air station and we're like, 'Hey, the Saudi president, the Saudi king said he is really sorry, deeply disturbed,'" Guandolo added. "How about a cruise missile right down Mecca, right on the Kaaba? Maybe that would send them a message that we're done playing in this war."