(Oklahoman) Oklahoma City mayoral candidate Carol Hefner, in Tuesday’s mayoral debate, made remarks about Islam that sparked an outcry from the local Muslim community.
Hefner, 60, has a history of making racist and Islamophobic social media posts. Near the end of the debate — in response to a question about posts where she called Islam an “evil culture” and compared President Barack Obama to Hitler — Hefner described her Lebanese family’s oppression from those practicing Islam before ending on a note of contempt for the religion.
“It is a very negative culture, and it does things that are oppressive, and I don’t agree with that,” Hefner said. “It’s just like slavery, I don’t agree with it. It’s insipid, it should be eradicated from our culture, from our world. Unfortunately, it’s been here since the beginning of time, I don’t know how I personally am going to get rid of it, but I would like to have those conversations.”
