After the shooting at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris on Wednesday, Fox News host Sean Hannity and guest Col. Ralph Peters spent a segment warning of the dangers of Muslim immigration in the U.S.
Hannity described an invasion of hostile Muslim immigrants across Europe, warning of things like “prayer rugs” in “just about every hotel” in France.
“Are we making that mistake in the United States, not insisting on assimilation?” Hannity asked.
Peters said he was “much more hopeful about the United States.” He explained by contrasting the Muslims immigrating to Europe with Muslims immigrating to the United States.
“The problem is Europe, with its ridiculously lavish welfare programs, attracted the dirtbags,” he said. “The people who don’t wanna work. The people who want handouts.”
“With some exception of course, American Muslims, they’re well-educated, on average they earn higher than the median wage, and most of them are law abiding,” Peters continued.
Hannity wasn’t satisfied: “How do we determine who gets to come in and who doesn’t? How do you tell a radical from a non-radical?”
Peters said the situation would improve if America had “education requirements” and “didn’t have welfare, wellbeing programs.”
“Europe got the wrong Muslims,” he said. “The elites in Europe wanted to be open-hearted and open-handed, and the average people got screwed.”
Watch the video, via Media Matters: