The backpeddling was immediate and I was told it was taken out of context and the students were asking why Osama was so well liked etc.and that the senator was not praising Osama.
As the conversation went on I realized the assistant was another touchy feely why can't we all get along type.
I explained to her why we can't all get along; because of the fundamental beliefs of Islam. I told her Osama bin Laden is a multimillionaire and he gave up the easy good life to risk his own to follow his religious beliefs. Islam is the problem not poverty or the fact that we didn't pore money into helping out Arab countries.
She kept asking me if I thought we should be helping these poor muslim people out, and I said no,because their religious beliefs call for them to kill us.
Then she said she would pass the info on to the senator. - Tom