Updated: 7:10 p.m. EDT Clay Higgins , a former police officer who now represents a Louisiana district in Congress, was criticized on Tuesday by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial in Poland for recording a political message in support of increased military spending by the United States during a recent visit to the death camp.

Everyone has the right to personal reflections. However, inside a former gas chamber, there should be mournful silence. It's not a stage. https://t.co/AN5aA1bYEU — Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) July 4, 2017

The public rebuke came in response to a Fourth of July video message uploaded to a conservative Christian website over the weekend in which Higgins offers viewers a guided tour of the gas chambers, set to the theme music from “Schindler’s List.” He then turns to the camera and says: “This is why homeland security must be squared away, why our military must be invincible.”

Higgins — who made his name in a series of melodramatic YouTube videos threatening criminals wanted by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office in Opelousas, La. — is a virulently anti-Muslim fundamentalist Christian. In response to a terrorist attack carried out by Islamists in London last month, the viral star argued on Facebook that “all of Christendom … is at war with Islamic horror.” The only solution to the threat posed by “these heathen animals,” he added, is to “hunt them, identify them, and kill them. Kill them all.” In his meditation on what the death camp teaches us, Higgins refers to “man’s inhumanity to man,” but somehow fails to mention that the vast majority of those exterminated at Auschwitz, 1 million Jews, were members of a persecuted religious minority. Instead, Higgins tries to draw a parallel between the threat posed by the Nazis to European Jews and what he sees as the real possibility that fringe groups of Islamist militants could, somehow, conquer the United States. “Our nation is at war with Islamic terror — the foreign horror that oppresses millions and intends to convert, kill or enslave the entire world,” Higgins said in a campaign video last year.