Republican Senator Bill Cassidy condemns Islamophobic language from fellow party members

There have been remarks in the past few days from some of your Republican colleagues that do seem hateful about other religions, specifically about Dr. Abdul Al -Sayed in Michigan, who just won that Democratic primary.Senator Tommy Tuberville said.Democrats just voted to send a terrorist to the Senate.He's a radical Islamist.Nancy Mace said every single Muslim holding public office in America is a Trojan horse and a threat to both national security and our Republic.We refuse to be silent.

These are just two of these statements.Are you comfortable here?Does your party need to condemn language like this?

I condemn language like that.is not to say that, let me just stop, the Muslims that I typically work with are doctors working in a remote area of Louisiana who otherwise would not have a physician unless Dr. Muhammad actually agreed to move there and be their doctor.Or he is the, or she is the professor teaching students something positive.Now, so you have to take every community in its totality.Every community has a bad apple, and every community has those people, my gosh, weren't they wonderful people.Now my exposure has been to the wonderful people.

I condemn those statements.And everybody should be treated as an individual.If somebody's awful, they should be treated as awful.But we shouldn't treat everybody as awful because somebody with whom they are identified may be awful, if you follow that.

I do.Thank you for your clarity on that.