Glenn Beck leaving Fox: his 10 most controversial statements (so far)

Glenn Beck has packed a lot of wallop in just two-plus years at Fox News. We’ve whittled the list down to the 10 most controversial things Mr. Beck has said on Fox – so far, at least.

8. Beck Explains "The Coming Insurrection" Of Marxists And Islamic Radicals That Will "Implode" The "Whole World" And Create A New Caliphate.

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n this May 4, 2010 file photo, Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck attends the TIME 100 gala celebrating the 100 most influential people, at the Time Warner Center in New York.

(From the Jan. 31 edition of "Glenn Beck")

BECK: OK. Let me just -- let me just take you through this map. I want to show you the coming insurrection.

Remember, we started over here with France, and England and Italy and Greece, all on fire, right? We have been telling you about the coming insurrection that is happening all in Europe, all across Europe. They've been protesting out in the streets and setting things on fire, and destroying things and it's all laid in out coming insurrection.

I told you that this is a global movement. Could you play this out with me and just humor me for a second?

Here we have Egypt. It started in Tunisia. Tunisia, then left -- leapfrogged Libya and went right over here to Egypt.

But they're starting -- the fires are starting here as well. But we see them here. This is already in revolution and flipped.

This is in revolution. I want you to look where Israel is, right here. Israel, the Gaza Strip is on fire. Do you have any idea, this strait, how much commerce is done through here?

You also have this little area. All the oil from the UAE, everything, closed here. This is Iran.

Play this out with me.

So, it jumps from here, starts fire here and here. Then if the Muslim Brotherhood and the radicals would take over like they did in 1979, I'll show you in a minute, it's exactly what happened. Oh, no, this is all moderate stuff.

If it happens over here, then we not only have a problem with Israel, but Saudi Arabia is in trouble, because remember, Saudi Arabia is also not a friendly place. Riots will start here. Iraq will be squeezed. Syria, Georgia will fall.

Who will stand with the United States? Who will stand with Israel? Because this is Sunni and this Shiite. You have Hamas, Hamas and Hezbollah. Hezbollah has to got to cause more chaos here. They will clearly go into Iraq where we are and the squeeze begins.

This will be on fire. This is already on fire. This is on fire. This is on fire. And it's riots all along.

So, now, you have the entire Middle East being pushed by Iran and Saudi Arabia basically, if it remains. They'll drag these guys out at any time and kill them all. These guys have to be freaking out.

Let me go the other direction. Let me go here. This is Africa, the tip of Africa. Here's Egypt, Libya, Tunisia.

What's next to Tunisia? Algeria -- also on fire now. The riots are starting here

Morocco is on fire. What's across from Morocco? Spain, connected to France and Germany and Italy, also on fire. And Greece, also on fire, which brings you right back here to Turkey.

The entire Mediterranean is on fire. More than that, it's not just the surrounding countries of the Mediterranean. It also spreads up here. You have U.K. and Ireland already with riot in the street. You have Russia with a bombing.

Well, now, let's see -- let's play this through. What do you think happens? These two collide. They quite honestly, they could make us collapse financially.

Just these two colliding. Let alone, if this is on fire as well, our forces there? What do we do?

This is colliding. We're pouring all of our money into here and here and trying to keep things stable. China pushes this direction. Here's China pushes this direction, just says knock it off, guys. These guys are pushing this direction. This is all pushing up into the middle, into the Mediterranean, into Spain.

This becomes a caliphate. This becomes China dominant. This becomes Muslim caliphate.

If they think Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Libya, possibly Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, are now some sort of a Muslim caliphate. If anyone begins to think that is a chance, what happens to the overwhelming radical population of the U.K., of radical Islamists? What happens? Do they just sit around on their hand or do they see an opportunity?

When you take the Marxist and you combine them with the radical from Islam, when you combine those forces, which is exactly -- we'll show you this week -- what is happening here, the whole world starts to implode. Does Russia push across this way? And what do we do?

This is not just happenstance. This is not just poor people mad at rich people. This is coordinated. Tunisia was the beginning.

I think there is a chance that Tunisia is our Archduke Ferdinand moment that I've been telling you about, warning that it would start in some place that wouldn't look like anything, and most of us wouldn't understand it.

He was the guy assassinated in Sarajevo, June 1914. A month later, Austria and Hungary declared war against Serbia and the rest is called World War I. I believe a snowball is being formed, and it is starting to roll.

There are too many people that want to have their dream world, not going to be able to catch it. But you can at least prepare to not get caught in the snowball. I'm going to show you in a minute how this isn't Berlin. This is Iran 1979.

I'll show you why we really went to war in Iraq. It's not for weapons of mass destruction. And then, if we have time, tonight, we'll introduce you to our friend, Mubarak. Next. [Fox News, "Glenn Beck," 1/31/11]

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