i don't want people of any faith making political decisions; i don't care if you're a christian, a muslim, a hindu, a jew, a sikh, whatever. if i think you believe in god, i won't vote for you. if you tell me you believe in god, i'll campaign against you.

i've been targeted by muslims here in windsor, but i might have been targeted by christians, and i wouldn't react differently if it was christians that were attacking me. that's not what i'm dealing with.

we need to address this problem head on, to ensure that our secular political institutions don't get taken over by backwards religious ideologies. it's imperative and sort of an emergency, and it's going to remain that way for at least a generation, until we can find some way to strip muslim immigrants of their faith, and assimilate them into the secular culture. that's going to be a serious challenge, but we succeeded in secularizing the irish and italians and jews and forcing them to abandon their faiths and we will succeed in secularizing the muslims and stripping them of their faith, too.

in the short run, until they are assimilated, they can't be in government making decisions. i would not welcome them, as i would not welcome christians, and i would not welcome jews or sikhs.