A Republican Congress member is coming under criticism for saying al-Qaeda would “dance in the streets” if Obama won the White House. Steve King of Iowa made the comment in a taped interview.

Rep. Steve King: “I will tell you that if he is elected president, then the — the radical Islamists, the al-Qaeda and the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11… I don’t want to disparage anyone because of their — their race, their ethnicity, their name, whatever their religion of their father — father might have been. I’ll just say this, that when you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected president of the United States — and I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world?”