Iowa – Giuliani’s Campaign Rocked By Muslim Bash.

Iowa – Rudy Giuliani’s campaign was rocked by controversy yesterday when a prominent New Hampshire volunteer resigned after making inflammatory comments about Muslims in an interview.

John Deady, co-chairman of New Hampshire Veterans for Rudy, told Britain’s Guardian newspaper that Muslims are “madmen” who need to be “chased back to their caves.”

Deady later elaborated on his remark, saying we need to “get rid” of Muslims to the liberal blog site Talking Points Memo.

“When I say ‘get rid of them,’ I wasn’t necessarily referring to genocide. What I was referring to is, stand up to them every time they stick up their heads and attack us,” Deady told TPM.

“We can’t afford to say, ‘We’ll try diplomacy.’ They don’t respond to it. If you look into Islamic tradition, a treaty is only good for five years. We’re not dealing with a rational mindset here. We’re dealing with madmen,” Deady said.

After a rally at his Iowa campaign headquarters yesterday morning, Giuliani sought to distance himself from Deady’s comments.

Giuliani said: “Everyone knows my views. I expressed them the night of Sept. 11, 2001. These acts should never involve group blame.” He said Muslims were good, decent people, but singled out a “small group . . . of Islamic terrorists who have perverted . . . a great religion.” [nypost]