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Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) said that political correctness could lead Americans to forget 9/11.

"My fear is that maybe we could end up forgetting what happened on 9/11 because of certain things like political correctness or this desire to be a multicultural America," West said Wednesday, according to the Florida Sun-Sentinel. "But in being a multicultural America, we must never forget the fundamental principles and values that made us great."

"Have we really learned a lesson from 9/11? I don't think we have," West, who is black, continued. "I think we are so anxious with this fast food type of mentality that we can quickly move beyond something that were not willing to sit back and really assess! what is really happening in and around us."

West said that this "multiculturalism on steroids" makes the U.S. vulnerable.

"If we continue down this road, as I call it multiculturalism on steroids, then we're going to present a gap by which we can get exploited time and time again," West said.

West's comments come less than a week before the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.