Radical Islam is a cancer that needs to be stopped, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a televised interview on “Face the Nation” on CBS News.
“In between East and West, there is a malignancy of militant Islam … whose first victims are Muslims who don’t tow the line, and they’re cut down brutally,” he said, The Hill reported. “Christians, the Yazidis, Jews, anyone, secularists, anyone, gays, women. I think that malignancy is growing and spreading. It’s sending its tentacles to the West.”
Mr. Netanyahu said his biggest fear is a radical Islamic force with nuclear weaponry.
“[Those that] marry their mad ideologies to weapons of mass death — that is a threat not only to my people, the Jewish people and the Jewish state of Israel, but to your people. They view us as one because of our tolerant societies whom they think is weak and corrupt,” he said, The Hill reported.
Mr. Netanyahu also said “they want to wipe us away,” but that “they’ll fail ultimately, as did the Nazis,” The Hill said.
• Cheryl K. Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.
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