Watch: Rick Santorum Gets Humiliated By College Student After Revealing Total Ignorance of Islam

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Hamzah Raza
April 18, 2016Video

Tonight, Rick Santorum, in addition to suggesting that Muslims are taking over godless Europe, tried to claim that "Sharia law" is inherently oppressive and monolithic in interpretation. 

After his talk, I asked Santorum to name the 5 foundations of Sharia, which he was unable to do. It was also difficult for him to fathom the fact that Muslim scholars across the religious spectrum have all condemned ISIS. And that ISIS does follow not a legitimate interpretation of Sharia, according to basically every Muslim in the world. Although he could not name a single Muslim scholar who supports ISIS, he still insisted that ISIS is very popular(a claim that is statistically untrue). Santorum also found it difficult to fathom the fact that religion is up to interpretation. 

These are ridiculous times we live in people. This man ran for President twice(in 2012 and 2016) berating us Muslims about the dangers of our barbaric "Sharia law" when he cannot even name Sharia's very foundations.

Watch: College Student confronts Rick Santorum. Video by Safiah Hassan.

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