Prominent Evangelical leaders urged Muslims to leave the US as a fifth column

Evidence

Likewise, in 2002, Reverend Jerry Vines, who had served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, warned his sixteen million followers that the Prophet Muhammad was a “demon-possessed pedophile.” Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the “Moral Majority” with Paul Falwell, and William S. Lind, director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism, jointly authored a booklet titled Why Islam Is a Threat to America and the West, wherein they argue that Muslims “should be encouraged to leave. They are a fifth column in this country.” — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 735 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Prominent Evangelical leaders publicly advocated for Muslims to leave the United States. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 735; Influential evangelical leaders mobilized institutional machinery against Muslim-Christian dialogue — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 510; Evangelical alarmist books recycled anti-immigrant rhetoric against American Muslims — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 699 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Prominent Evangelical leaders publicly advocated for Muslims to leave the United States. #expands (0.95) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 735