GOP candidate Carson: Islam inconsistent with Constitution; a Muslim shouldn't be president


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ts2SMTJhI

WASHINGTON – Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson says he doesn't believe a Muslim should be elected president.

Carson is a devout Christian and says a president's faith should matter to voters if it runs counter to America's values.

Responding to a question on NBC's "Meet the Press," Carson describes the Islamic faith as inconsistent with the Constitution.

He says he "absolutely would not agree" that "we put a Muslim in charge of this nation."

Carson's comments come amid fallout over Republican Donald Trump's refusal last week to take issue with a man during a campaign event who wrongly called President Barack Obama a Muslim and said Muslims are "a problem in this country." Obama is Christian.

Carson says he believes that Obama was born in the U.S. and is Christian.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/20/gop-candidate-carson-islam-inconsistent-with-constitution-muslim-shouldnt-be/

Annunaki:


Islam is also inconsistent with human values, muslims should not be allowed in any role of power.

misreal:


I agree with Carson.

OLAADEGBU:


Ben Carson must have been brave to make that statement knowing that it is not politically correct. It will only take a strong resolve and God's grace for him to win this election. I hope he wins.

misreal:


he is truly a brave man.

OLAADEGBU:


Very much unlike the current POTUS.

amalektch:


Unlike the current POTUS, Carson doesnt actually have to govern. He can say any thing he likes and go to sleep with no responsibility whatsoever. When you have a responsibility, you mind what you say.

OLAADEGBU:


The world is fed up of political correctness. What many people want to hear is the truth and not propaganda.

amalektch:


the world is equally fed up of political/cultural christians.

mauriceju2:


every Moslem see shiria law as the supreme law of all law, so how will the do well in a democratic government?

mauriceju2:


every Moslem see shiria law as the supreme law of all law, so how will the do well in a democratic government?

OLAADEGBU:


Ben Carson must have been brave to make that statement knowing that it is not politically correct. It will only take a strong resolve and God's grace for him to win this election. I hope he wins.

OLAADEGBU:


The world is fed up of political correctness. What many people want to hear is the truth and not propaganda.

OLAADEGBU:
Where I disagree with Carson is that I don't believe the POTUS is a Christian. See my thread for my reasons below:

https://www.nairaland.com/934799/reasons-why-know-obama-not

dalaman:
The hypocrisy of Dr Ben Carson is blinding.

More about Dr. Ben Carson:
1. Raised by a single mother
2. Raised in public housing
3. Fed with food stamps.
4. Supported with welfare
5. Kept healthy with medicaid
6. Educated in public schools
7. Got eyeglasses from state agency
8. Benefited from affirmative action to enter college
9. Used federal loans and Pell grants in undergrad school
10. Benefited from affirmative action to enter medical school
11. Med school paid for with grant from USPHS*
12. Said: “The disintegration of the family unit and the welfare state are enslaving African-Americans and ruining their futures.”

Typical Tea Partier; He got his, he grew up on welfare and state support but wants to do away with Obama care, He wants the rest of Americans to be on their own after benefiting from the state.

amalektch:


How else do you expect a black republican to get ahead in the republican party? The only reason he popped up as a viable candidate in the first place was using the national prayer breakfast to insult the president openly and call obamacare the worst thing since slavery. Anything else and no one would have given him the light of day.

amalektch:


How else do you expect a black republican to get ahead in the republican party? The only reason he popped up as a viable candidate in the first place was using the national prayer breakfast to insult the president openly and call obamacare the worst thing since slavery. Anything else and no one would have given him the light of day.

amalektch:


How else do you expect a black republican to get ahead in the republican party? The only reason he popped up as a viable candidate in the first place was using the national prayer breakfast to insult the president openly and call obamacare the worst thing since slavery. Anything else and no one would have given him the light of day.

Seun:
Ben Carson has the right temperament for a good leader, but the problem is that he believes so many wrong things because his entire life has been faith-based. Like all high achieving people of faith, he has developed the ability to shut down his highly intelligent brain whenever it's telling him something that is contrary to his faith. He wouldn't be as disastrous as Fiorina/Cruz because he will actually listen to advice when the advice does not contradict his religious beliefs, and he would continue Obama's legacy of avoiding actions that would make the world hate America. I think he hopes to be picked as a running mate to Donald Trump if Trump wins the nomination, but a JJC-JJC ticket makes no sense.

Seun:
Ben Carson has the right temperament for a good leader, but the problem is that he believes so many wrong things because his entire life has been faith-based. Like all high achieving people of faith, he has developed the ability to shut down his highly intelligent brain whenever it's telling him something that is contrary to his faith. He wouldn't be as disastrous as Fiorina/Cruz because he will actually listen to advice when the advice does not contradict his religious beliefs, and he would continue Obama's legacy of avoiding actions that would make the world hate America. I think he hopes to be picked as a running mate to Donald Trump if Trump wins the nomination, but a JJC-JJC ticket makes no sense.

OLAADEGBU:


I am sure the Obama administration regretted the day they chose Ben Carson to speak at the prayer's breakfast because that was when Obama was taken to the cleaners. Watch the talk here:

dalaman:


But someone like him that relied on the state for his education and was raised on welfare, should not condemn the very system that made him. He is just a ridiculous hypocrite.

amalektch:


how do you expect him to get any traction in the party of white supremacy if he is not trashing fellow blacks?

dalaman:


Then he should leave the republican party since they are a party of racist and are making him act like a hypocrite.

biikeys:


He is actually someone that doesn't like to offend people as much as possible and likes to think things out deeply..which will make him an Obama-style pragmatic president. I think America needs a shade of the perceived firm, powerful presidency alongside that.

amalektch:


... and they care because? You know they care how? Obama will leave in 2017 and go down in the record books as one of America's presidents. Ben Carson will be forgotten.