Former Rep. Paul Broun

Former Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) has made a name for himself by espousing radical beliefs. For instance, he has compared President Barack Obama to Hitler, claimed that clean energy legislation would kill senior citizens, and avowed that his Democratic Party opponents want to take over “all of society.” Yet Broun has reserved some of his most outrageous remarks for American Muslims and the wider Muslim world. He joined former Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) and other colleagues at a press conference in 2009 to amplify the claim of “Muslim Mafia” that interns from the Council on American-Islamic Relations were “running influence operations or planting spies in key national security-related” congressional offices. He endorsed anti-Islam candidate, Jody Hice (R) - a radio show host and Baptist minister, as his successor in July of this year. Hice has made inflammatory comments about Islam in the past and once told a tea party audience in July 2011 that “most people think Islam is a religion, it’s not. It’s a totalitarian way of life with a religious component.”