Bachmann: Libya attack was effort to impose Sharia law on the U.S.

Former Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann on Friday asserted that the recent attacks on American embassies in Libya and Egypt were part of a plan to bring Sharia law to the United States.

"The violence has come to us, the United States," the Minnesota congresswoman warned in a speech at the Values Voter Summit. "And on the anniversary of 9-1-1, no less, our Libyan ambassador and his courageous staff lost their lives in Benghazi in Libya in a cruel, cold-blooded, gruesome, intentional terror attack."

"And all the while, the response of this administration has communicated both weakness and lack of resolve to the world," she charged. "I want to be perfectly clear, this isn't just about a movie. This is an intentional act that was done by radical Islamists who seek to impose their beliefs on the rest of the world and we will not stand for it!"

"And what we're watching develop before our eyes today are the direct consequences of this administration's policy of apology and appeasement across the globe and the supposed success of the president's foreign policy genius -- hailed by the media, even last week -- is now exposed for what it is."

Bachmann went on to explain President Barack Obama's "relationship" with the Organization for Islamic Cooperation, which she claimed had a 10-year plan "to implement its Sharia-based speech code requirements worldwide."

"That, my friends, explains the story of this week," she insisted. "Islamic-enforced speech codes. No one, not Muslims, not non-Muslims, not Americans are allowed to say anything Islamists see as insulting to their religion. They intend to force us to kiss our freedom of speech and religion goodbye. And that's why we're being forewarned today."

"President Obama needs to get his priorities straight," Bachmann concluded. "What he needs to do is he needs to cancel his interview with David Letterman, cancel his meeting with Beyonce, cancel his meeting with Jay-Z, and instead, agree to meet with the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu!"

Earlier this year, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) accused Bachmann and four other Republican lawmakers of “specious and degrading attacks” after they called on inspectors general in the State, Homeland Security, Defense and Justice departments to investigate “potential Muslim Brotherhood infiltration” of the Obama administration by Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary Clinton and wife of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY).

Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Sept. 14, 2012.