Gov. Bobby Jindal plans Monday to call on Muslim leaders to “stand up and stop” what is “happening in the name of Islam.”
The Louisiana Republican is scheduled to address the Henry Jackson Society in London on Monday — so his office released a preview of his speech Thursday.
“Let’s be honest here, Islam has a problem,” Jindal will say, calling it Muslim leaders’ problem and “they need to deal with it.”
Jindal, the first Indian-American governor, is also expected to express his views on the American Dream and his ethnic heritage in order to discuss immigration.
“My dad and mom told my brother and me that we came to America to be Americans. Not Indian-Americans, simply Americans. If we wanted to be Indians, we would have stayed in India,” Jindal will say.
“It is completely reasonable and even necessary for a sovereign nation to discriminate between people who want to join them and people who want to divide them. And immigration policy should have nothing at all to do with the color of anyone’s skin. I find people who care about skin pigmentation to be the most dim-witted lot around. I want nothing to do with that,” Jindal is expected to say.
Jindal is widely expected to run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
In a RealClearPolitics average of polls, Jindal is polling 11th out of 12 potential candidates. With an average level of support at 2.8 percentage points, he is far behind the leader, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who polls at an average of 17 percentage points.
