Ben Carson
Presidential hopeful Ben Carson, who’s pulling in third in one recent poll, behind Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina, doubled down on comments he made about Muslims in the White House saying for the second time in a day: They shouldn’t serve as the country’s chief executive officer.
In an interview with the Hill, Carson said: “I do not believe Sharia is consistent with the Constitution of this country. Muslims feel that their religion is very much a part of your public life and what you do as a public official, and that’s inconsistent with our principles and our Constitution.”
He made the comments just hours after saying similarly on NBC’s “Meet the Press” with Chuck Todd, as reported by WND. During that Sunday show, Carson said he “would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation,” sparking fury from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Just hours after Carson’s interview with Todd, CAIR called for him to step away from his run for the presidency.
Fellow Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham weighed in with a tweet: “@RealBenCarson is not ready to be Commander-In-Chief. America is an idea, not owned by a particular religion.”
And shortly after, he followed with a second Twitter message, calling for Carson to apologize. Lindsey wrote: “@RealBenCarson needs to apologize to American Muslims. He is a good doctor, but clearly not prepared to lead a great nation.”
Democrats, meanwhile, jumped on Carson’s comments, too.
Martin O’Malley, a former Maryland governor and presidential contender, tweeted: “American people are better than latest Trump/Carson/GOP anti-Muslim bigotry. Hate is not an American value.”
And self-declared socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, who’s pulling second in the Democratic Party primary for president. said in a statement reported by NBC News: “I am very disappointed that Dr. Carson would suggest that a Muslim should not become president of the United States. It took us too long to overcome the prejudice against electing a Catholic or an African-American president. People shuld be elected to office based on their ideas, not their religion or the color of their skin.”
But Carson isn’t apologizing.
To the Hill, he said the only way he’d be okay with a Muslim in the high office of the White House would be if he or she “publicly rejected all the tenants of Sharia and lived a life consistent with that.”
He also warned about the Shia Islam practice of “Taqiya,” however, where Muslims mislead nonbelievers about their faith to avoid being persecuted.
“Taqiya is a component of Shia that allows, and even encourages, you to lie to achieve your goals,” Carson said, to the Hill.
He went on: “We are a different kind of nation. Part of why we rose so quickly is because we wouldn’t allow our values or principles to be supplanted because we were going to be politically correct … part of the problem today is that we’re so busy trying to be politically correct that we lose all perspective.”
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