A CO Armagh pastor has spoken out in support of Ruth Patterson whom he described as "a lovely lady" guilty only of saying "what nine out of 10 loyalist people are thinking".
Barry Halliday of Five Mile Hill Pentecostal in Bessbrook said there "wasn't enough" IRA members killed during the Troubles.
The former UDR man is an activist with Willie Frazer's FAIR victims group.
In a video posted on YouTube, Pastor Halliday said: "[Ms Patterson is] no criminal, she's no threat to society and she simply is a lady who knows what the people who put her into office think".
He tells Ms Patterson on the clip that her comments were "one of your better moments of judgment".
"Martin Mcguinness, gerry Kelly, all those people, they are Ulster Bin Ladens and what they visited on this community and what they're trying to justify in Castlederg and Belfast parades is just the same as al-Qaida trying to justify what they've done in the free world," he said.
Referencing commemorations of IRA members killed during the Troubles, Paster Halliday said: "There wasn't enough of them blew up, there wasn't enough of them shot".
The also warned the DUP, "the country's watching you".
He said the party, which immediately distanced itself from Ms Patterson's remarks would be judged "by how you stand by Ruth Patterson because she said what we're thinking and a few years ago the whole lot of you would have been saying it and encouraging it so make your decision and come out of this fighting".