In the wake of the recent Bondi Beach, Australia, ISIS-inspired mass shooting that left 15 dead and more than 20 more injured, U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) decried the rise in radical Islam across the world.
During an interview with Huntsville WVNN's "The Yaffee Program," Moore, a candidate for U.S. Senate, described radical Islam as a "cancer" that "devours everything it touches." He warned that what had happened in Europe and was now happening in Australia would eventually come to the United States.
"Well, my thoughts are you just got this radical tyranny of Islam that's coming around the country, and you can't get 30-year money in Paris and London now because those European countries are falling," Moore said. "And we in the Western world better wake up because it's happened in Australia. And what was so frustrating to me is that the Prime Minister of Australia came out and said, well, you know, we've got to get tougher gun restriction laws. That's not the problem. You're importing people who want to kill you. And if they're not doing it with a gun, they're going to do it with a knife. And so at the end of the day, it's a cancer, and it devours everything it touches. And we have to speak to it. We have to talk about it. We cannot let this continue. Europe was quiet, and they're in a bad spot in London and a bad spot in Paris. We've got some places in Michigan that are in bad ways, Minneapolis, outside of Texas, down in New York with Mamdani."
He added, "All of this stuff, it's here. And we need to wake up and recognize that there is no place in this nation. Australia learned a hard lesson. We need to observe these things and make sure that we're aware of them and that we prevent them here on this inside this continental United States."
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