'Do you beat your wife': US lawmaker asks Muslims

March 05, 2017 13:05

'Do you beat your wife' was a poser in an 'Islamophobic' questionnaire that Muslims wanting to meet a Republican lawmaker were reportedly asked to fill out.

Oklahoma Representative John Bennett asked his constituents taking part in the state's third annual 'Muslim Day' to fill out the bizarre questionnaire, BuzzFeed News reported.

Adam Soltani, executive director of Council on AmericanIslamic Relations Oklahoma, was quoted as saying that high school students from Tulsa's Peace Academy visited Bennett's office to either meet with him or schedule a meeting.

Soltani said the students were met by a legislative assistant who gave them a questionnaire, telling them it must be filled out in writing.

The nine-part questionnaire included questions such as, "Do you beat your wife?"

"I was distraught when (the students) showed me the questionnaire. I wasn't completely surprised by it because obviously we have been challenging Bennett's hate rhetoric for many years," Soltani said.

"Nobody should be vetted with stupid, Islamophobic,hateful, bigoted questions before they can meet with their representative," Soltani said.

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