A Tennessee pastor is again stirring controversy online – this time with his take on the Syrian refugee crisis – and he couldn’t care less if is remarks strike some as offensive.
Mt. Juliet Pastor Greg Locke posted a video to Facebook yesterday that’s already garnered nearly 650,000 views, and more than 10,195 “likes” and 21,000 “shares.”
IT’S TIME TO LAY THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS TO REST. (I’ll go ahead and say goodbye and God bless to some of my unfollowers right now.)#PleaseShareThis
Posted by Pastor Greg Locke on Thursday, November 19, 2015
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“I am convinced 100 percent that (the Syrian refugee issue) is a Trojan horse to get radical Islam more embedded into the fabric of the United States of America,” Locke said. “One thing you will find out about me very, very quickly is I’m not PC – politically correct. I try to be BC – biblically correct. So I’m not really interested in whether you follow me or not. You can get mad, you can unlike the page, and I promise you I will not lose one moment of sleep over it.”
Locke went on to opine that if even a small fraction of the Syrian refugees seeking asylum in the United States are ISIS agents, the result will be devastating.
“Can I remind you than on 9/11 19 men carried out the biggest, most explosive terrorist attack that this nation has ever seen. Nineteen,” he said. “So if there is only 100 in the 10,000 Syrian refugees, that’s 100 too many.”
Locke then offered a suggestion on how to handle the situation.
“Because we do want to show compassion, and love, and grace, and we do want to help the women and the children, here’s what we do. … There is some very nice land in Alaska, let’s build a small refugee camp, let’s feed them, let’s clothe them. Let’s be kind and loving and compassionate and show them the American Spirit, and let’s put them in Alaska for at least another year until we can vote somebody into the White House that the American people can actually trust and have confidence in, who doesn’t lie to us boldly and have an Islamic agenda.
“And then after that year we’ll see whether we allow them to come into our nation’s ‘borders’ or not,” he said. “So for now, let’s take care of them, in Alaska, where no harm can be done.”
It’s certainly not the first time Locke has spoken out on his views on Islam. In a Facebook video posted shortly before this year’s anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Locke highlighted the “absolute Islamic indoctrination” of students in Tennessee and other states through the guise of world history lessons, EAGnews reports.
“Let me tell you something, when they are in sixth grade they get a half a page of watered down Christianity that has about as much Bible as a thimble, if you will, and now there’s 28 pages they have to learn about Islam, and Mohammad, and how it all came about, and about the holy Koran, and the Five Pillars of Islam, and how they pray, and when they pray, and where they pray, and why they pray, and about pilgrimages and all this and then they say that Allah is the only God,” Locke said in the September video, which also pointed out the fact that sixth and seventh students in the Nashville suburb took their test on Islam on Sept. 11.
“Do not think … that is any coincidence, whatsoever, that on Sept. 11 they will be taking a test on it,” he said while also encouraging parents and student to take an “F” on the assignment by refusing to participate.
In the most recent video, Locke made it clear he doesn’t believe the world’s problems with radical Islam can be solved through reason or negotiation, and issued a warning about how he thinks the refugee crisis could play out if they begin to arrive in the U.S. by the thousands.
“I’m here to tell you, Islam is not going away,” Locke said. “Radical Islam is most assuredly not going away. And if you think that we’re going to be able to change their mind about the domination of the world, then you have your head in the sand and need a check-up from the neck up … ,” he said.
“I promise you that if we bring them into the United States as a whole, it’s going to be an absolute devastating catastrophe.”
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