Anti-Muslim activist Frank Gaffney devoted his “Secure Freedom Minute” radio feature today to smearing Muslim Americans who are running for office this year.

In the spot, Gaffney says “Islam’s totalitarian Sharia code is wholly incompatible with the U.S. Constitution,” an idea that has been promoted in various forms by a number of Religious Right leaders, including former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins and Jerry Boykin, and the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer.

Gaffney runs the Center for Security Policy, which hosted a panel during the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference at which panelists discussed how to get Muslim immigrants and “fake refugees” to leave the U.S. During that discussion, Gaffney warned about Muslims running for office this year:

“Mark my words, you are going to see to a degree that is unprecedented in this nation’s history at least, the power of unassimilated, Sharia-supremacist dominated, political forces, not just in Minnesota but in Michigan and a number of other states around the country,” Gaffney said.

In today’s spot, which is being promoted by his public relations firm, Gaffney says: