Gary Bauer: This is Becoming the Left’s M.O.

Gary Bauer, the Christian pro-family advocate who ran for president in 2000, offered his own response Sunday to the Islamist attack in Orlando, Florida, as well as the reaction from the political left in America.

He issued the statement shortly after 3 p.m. EDT Sunday, and said, at the time, it appeared the attack was perpetrated by an Islamic supremacist—it now widely known that the shooter, Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, had declared his allegiance to ISIS prior to carrying out the attack. Bauer also noted ISIS had praised the attack.

“ISIS is praising the attack, likely the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil since 9/11,” he said. “It is also Ramadan—a time when Islamic terrorism spikes, as we have already seen with last week’s attack in Tel Aviv.”

Bauer said the Washington Post and New York Times “initially refused to report” the Islamist connection because there is a “political alliance” between the Left and radical Islam in America and Europe. He noted, however, how “in much of the Islamic world,” homosexuality is despised and punished with death.

“Iran hangs homosexuals. ISIS throws them off buildings,” he said. “There are Muslim neighborhoods in London, Paris and Berlin where homosexuals cannot go. When will left-wing constituencies realize that they are doomed if the Islamists ever prevail?

“This is becoming the modus operandi of left-wing elites. From trade deals to the border, from terrorist attacks to hidden agendas buried in major legislation, the No. 1 goal of the Left is to prevent the American people from having the information we need.

“At this morning’s press conference, law enforcement officials kept saying, ‘If you see something, say something.’ I couldn’t help but notice the irony that even when we see something, like an attack, our leaders, including Hillary Clinton, cannot bring themselves to say the most important ‘something’—that Muslim supremacists are at war with America and Western Civilization.”

Bauer then called out “Republican elites” who have been critical of a policy proposal to temporarily pause Muslim immigration into the U.S. advocated by GOP presidential nominee-in-waiting Donald Trump and others. He asked if they “really want to continue to make the case” that the proposal is “beyond the pale” given the latest circumstances.