Conservative commentator Glenn Beck is mounting a defense of American Muslims, warning that failure to differentiate them from "Islamists" could lead to an "internment camp situation."



Muslims in the U.S. are “no different than Catholics or Mormons,” Beck explained in an interview with CBS's Alex Wagner when asked about President Trump's revised travel ban on six Muslim-majority countries.



According to Beck, Islamists are different in that they believe “the Quran supersedes the Constitution or any country.”

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The former Fox News firebrand agreed that an Islamist threat exists but criticized the White House for failing to differentiate between Islamists and Muslims.



“We could see some sort of internment camp situation. ... We could head someplace we’ve been before, and we don’t want to go again,” he said, referring to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.



Beck also criticized Trump for his accusations that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign.



“We’re losing our faith in everything. It’s concerning to me that we’re now going down this road of ‘deep state.’ We have to logically come together — people on the right and the left that are fair-minded — let’s fix reason firmly in her seat and question everything honestly and look at all of it, and disprove this or prove this,” Beck said.



“We can’t go another year, let alone another four years, with someone claiming that the government is somehow or another run by shadow people,” he added.