From FOX-2 News (Missouri)
KIRKWOOD, MO (KTVI)– An e-mail from a powerful Missouri lawmaker attacking Muslims is drawing fire from Christian pastors in the lawmakers St. Louis County hometown.
State Representative Rick Stream of Kirkwood chairs the house budget committee. He sent out an e-mail from his official state account a week ago, attacking Muslims. Representative Stream has refused to comment, but Christian ministers in Kirkwood are saying plenty.
Representative Stream sent an e-mail from his office to all other Republican representatives, senators, and staff personnel in the general assembly.
The e-mail quoted an 1899 speech from Winston Churchill attacking Muslims and Islam.
It read, in part quoting Churchill:
“Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. Islam is a militant faith. Churchill saw it coming.”
The Riverfront Times broke the story and said Stream had not responded to their request for comment. So we tried.
His office didn’t respond to our calls and e-mails, so we went to his office in the state capitol. And he didn’t emerge from behind the closed door in his office, so we went to his Kirkwood district.
There aren’t a lot of Muslims in Representative Stream’s district, but there are a lot of Christians, so we decided to ask the pastors of three churches close to Stream’s campaign headquarters in Kirkwood what they think of the e-mail, starting with the pastor of the Methodist Church across the street.
“I think that kind of stuff is generally destructive and incendiary. I want to look at Muslim brothers and sisters, especially the ones who are American citizens as just that,” stated Associate Pastor Rocky Marlowe of United Methodist Church of Kirkwood.
“What you did is an embarrassment and I am ashamed to be considered part of your area of representation. You should be ashamed,” said Reverend Maureen Killoran of Eliot Chapel Unitarian Church.
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