Last year, in an interview with Breitbart News, King said he didn't want a pork plant in his district to hire Somali Muslims because, he claimed, they consider consumers as "infidels" who should be sent to hell.

“I don’t want people doing my pork that won’t eat it, let alone hope I go to hell for eating pork chops,” King was quoted by Brietbart.

King, a leading proponent of cracking down on illegal immigration at the United States' southern border and a proponent of preserving western civilization, also has repeatedly fought off charges that he harbors white nationalist and white supremacist views.

In January, House leaders stripped King of all his committee assignments for the next two years, following a national uproar over King's quotes in a New York Times story in which he asked, "White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?"