"In Nigeria... they're the greatest scam artists in the world," he said. "They must teach them how to run scams and pickpocket people because they are very good at pickpocketing."

Beckel's co-hosts sat in shock while he continued to explain why he believes Iranians excel as well:

“Of course their kids are gonna pay attention, because if they don’t they are gonna take them in backyard and feed them to dogs," he claimed. "They scare ‘em, the Iranians scare ‘em, they’re torturers. No wonder the kids are gonna pay attention."

"You're saying they torture their children?" co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle asked.

"Yes," he replied.

He took a moment later in the segment to clarify his earlier claims:

"Let me clarify something here before I get into any trouble here. I'm not apologizing, I'm just clarifying. I thought we were talking about this list of people -- like Nigerians and Iranians -- overseas, not here in the United States. I know a lot of good Nigerians, good Iranians here in the United States. It's overseas that most of the scams happen."

Bob Beckel made more anti-Muslim comments on Tuesday's "The Five" in the wake of the deadly attack on a mall in Kenya.

The panel was discussing the attack by Islamic militants, who opened fire on Westgate mall and killed dozens of people on Saturday. Beckel declared that the Islam is "not the religion of peace," and that Muslims needs to "stand up and say something."
He continued, "I will repeat what I said before: No Muslim students coming here with visas. No more mosques being built here until you stand up and denounce what's happened in the name of your prophet. It is not what your prophet meant as soon as I know. I don't know his mother's name and I don't care. The point is, that the time has come for Muslims in this country and other people in the world to stand up and be counted, and if you can't, you're cowards."

The Fox News host, whose anti-Muslim views are well-known, made similar comments in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings and again in July after a deadly attack on a Nigerian boarding school. He later walked back those comments.

Fox News liberal Bob Beckel had some policy ideas about Muslims on Tuesday's edition of "The Five."

Beckel and his co-hosts were talking about the Boston bombing suspects, who are Muslim. The general consensus seemed to be that, by probing into their lives and their possible motives for the attacks, members of the media were avoiding the main issue.

"You find the big argument, which is Muslim supremacy, isn't that all you need?" Greg Gutfeld asked. "Why do you have to delve into their psychosis?"

"We know that In the Muslim communities around the world, they do not like us," Beckel replied. "They recruit people from poor areas and turn them into terrorists." He didn't say how this thesis was connected to the Tsarnaev brothers, who came legally with their family when they were 9 and 16.

"I think we really have to consider...that we're going to have to cut off Muslim students from coming to this country for some period of time so that we can at least absorb what we've got, look at what we've got and decide whether some of the people here should be sent back home or sent to prison," he continued.

At the end of the show, Beckel issued a clarification of sorts, explaining that, perhaps, young Muslims currently in the US could stay, but that new restrictions should definitely be considered, along with restrictions on Chinese students--who, he said, are sent to America only so that they can learn computers, go back home and "hack us."