Pat Robertson On Embassy Attack: "You Wonder What It Is In These Muslims That Causes Them To Go Crazy"

Media Matters for America

PAT ROBERTSON: You know, you wonder what it is in these Muslims that causes them to go crazy because somebody says something about Muhammad, most of which happens to be true. He took his favorite wife, when she was either 8 or 9 years old, and he was 53 and he began having sexual relations with that 8 or 9 year old child. Now we call that pedophile-pedophilia in this country. But with him it was like a holy act. He had a number of wives, and this movie showed him having sexual intercourse with one or more of his wives and I guess the Muslims got upset about that. But Muhammad was very frank about what he did and what he didn't do and you read some of the writings of Muhammad and what he has to say, it's all in there. But he seemed to, you know Muslims can have four wives and he probably had more than his quota but nevertheless, why do they riot? Why do they kill people? What is it about this religion that makes them so terribly defensive? The reason they're so defensive is because they cannot defend some of the stuff they believe and therefore they are very protective of it. What do you think? Glad to see you. I mean if a man is 53 years old and he starts having sex with an 8 year old?