Posted on 09/21/2015 12:23:22 PM PDT by jazusamo
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is calling on Republicans to repudiate Ben Carson's remarks that Muslims are not fit to be president.
“I call on every Republican to denounce Ben Carson’s disgusting remarks,” Reid tweeted on Monday. “That shameful intolerance and bigotry should have no place here.
“Kareem Khan sacrificed everything for his country,” he added, tweeting a picture of a grave bearing that name. “Shame on Carson for denigrating him and all Muslim Americans.”
Reid’s Twitter photo shows a memorial for Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, an Army corporal who lived from Feb. 12, 1987 to Aug. 6, 2007.
The memorial notes that Khan received both the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Earlier Monday on the Senate floor, Reid criticized the Republican Party's attitude toward Muslims.
“Sadly, though, Dr. Carson’s remarks are just another example of a Republican candidate’s refusing to speak for three million Muslim Americans,” he said.
“If these Republican candidates are incapable of going to bat for America’s Muslim community then they shouldn’t running for president of the United States,” he continued.
“Republicans should open their eyes and take note of the contributions of our nation’s Muslim community,” the Nevada lawmaker added. “Until they do that, none of them will be worthy of leading this nation.”
Carson sparked controversy on Sunday by declaring that Muslims should not be president.
“I would not advocate that put a Muslim in charge of this nation,” the retired neurosurgeon said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I absolutely would not agree with that.”
He doubled down on those views in an exclusive interview with The Hill later that evening.
“I do not believe Sharia is consistent with the Constitution of this country,” Carson said, citing certain interpretations of Islamic law.
“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,” the former doctor added.
Carson’s comments brought bipartisan backlash on Monday, including from many in his own party. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said there was no religious test for public office in the Constitution.
And the White House also slammed the remarks, with press secretary Josh Earnest calling Carson’s comments “entirely inconsistent with the Constitution” and freedom of religion.
Carson presently ranks second out of 16 candidates for next year’s GOP presidential nomination across multiple national polls.
He commands 18.8 percent voter support, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls .
That beatdown of Reid seems to have done more damage to his brain than his eye.
Well, there you go. The Republicans should take advice from Harry Reid.
I denounce Harry Reid!
Reid, who is partially responsible for the destruction of America, our health care, and our liberties
Dear Senator Reid, guess what? We don’t give a D what you think (but DO go get yourself checked over — it sounds like you are having hallucinations if you think another Moslem in the WH is desirable for our country now)
Reid is a racist. He hates Ben Carson because he is black. And loves shariah because it encourages slavery. Blacks/slavery. Harry’s thing.
When will we see McConehead comply with Reid's edict?
Carson’s stock just went up again. Keep opening your pie hole, Old Harry.
25 REASONS OBAMA IS A MUSLIM
25) He changed the primary mission of NASA from space exploration to Muslim outreach . . . seriously.
24) He refuses to treat foreign terrorists as enemies at war with this country, and insists instead on treating them as mere common criminals with the constitutional rights of American citizens.
23) He refused to acknowledge that the bloodthirsty Islamic lunatics he brought to power in Iraq (ISIS) were Muslims.
22) He appeased Iran’s Islamo-fascist regime as it went nuclear.
21) When a Muslim beheaded a woman in Oklahoma for not converting to Islam, he refused to allow any acknowledgement of the Islamic connection to the attack.
20) He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq (enabling the rise of ISIS) and then lied about it.
19) He had his Department of Justice threaten to prosecute people for criticizing Islam. (FORGET THE 1st AMENDMENT)
18) He alienates and betrays Israel (our number-one ally in the Middle East) non-stop.
17) He handed Afghanistan back to the Islamic fundamentalists who facilitated 9/11.
16) He rushes in after every terrorist attack to warn us against “Islamophobia” and stopped the authorities from investigating Islamic extremism.
15) He criminalized Christianity in the military while spying onevery one but Islamic terrorists.
14) When an Islamic terrorist slaughtered 13 people and injured 30 others at Ft. Hood in 2009 while shouting, “Allahu Akbar” the entire time (a 100% preventable attack made possible by him refusing to investigate a Muslim soldier), he responded by calling it “workplace violence” and refusing to acknowledge any connection whatsoever to Islam.
13) He is on the record enthusiastically embracing Islam, and peddling wildly erroneous ”religion of peace” propaganda that Muslims around the world openly reject as false.
12) When a U.S. ambassador was dragged through the streets and tortured to death by barbaric Muslim savages in Benghazi, along with three other Americans killed that night, he repeatedly refused to lift a finger to stop the attack in the first place, and responded by apologizing to the terrorists, falsely blaming the attack on an American film, and intimidating witnesses into silence.
11) He refuses to acknowledge America’s Judeo-Christian roots, while even absurdly attempting to portray us as a Muslim country.
10) He was born and raised a Muslim.
9) He appointed members of a radical Islamic terrorist organization to sensitive advisory roles and gave Muslim extremist groups sweeping influence over U.S. policies.
8) He gutted the U.S. military to the bone while bending over backward to arm Islamic terrorists.
7) When the heads of more than 40 countries responded to the mass murder of journalists in Paris by organizing the greatest march against Islamic terrorism in history, he was the only leader in the entire Western world who refused to show up, or even have a high-level official make an appearance...even though Eric Holder was already in the city.
6) He funded and empowered Sharia-pushing Islamist radicals while trashing their Christian victims and targeting conservatives.
5) He needlessly released major Islamic terrorist leaders from Guantanamo Bay back onto the battlefield who then started groups like ISIS and had to be re-captured as they raped, beheaded, and massacred Christians across the Middle East.
4) He armed, funded, supported Islamic terrorists ...and evenrecruited them, through the State Department.
3) He routinely met with the Hamas front group CAIR while blocking FBI investigations into its open funding of terrorist groups, despite it being banned in other countries as a violent Islamic terrorist organization.
2) After he intentionally misled the public on Benghazi by falsely attributing the known terrorist attack to Americans having the right to disagree with Islam in public, Hillary revealed that he was looking to “arrest and prosecute” the film-maker they falsely blamed. And that film-maker was in fact sent to prison on trumped up charges.
1) He holds regular meetings with Islamic terrorists from the Muslim Brotherhood, removes its members from our “no-fly” lists, blocks FBI investigations into its jihadist fundraising, and fills the administration with its Islamic supremacists as they promote Sharia law.
You don’t just happen to come down on the side of Islam 100% of the time, on every single issue, without there being a reason for it. Obama is a tireless advocate for Islamic front groups, causes, and interests...and has been a brazen activist on their behalf from the beginning.
THOSE WHO WILL NOT CONNECT THE DOTS SHOWING THAT OBAMA IS A MUSLIM, ARE
IN DENIAL, BLIND TO EVIDENCE, ARE EMOTIONALLY INCAPABLE OF ACCEPTING THE
OBVIOUS, AND ARE UNABLE TO DRAW CONCLUSIONS BASED ON OBSERVATION.
Guess we just lost the Muslim jihadist vote. Not that we ever had it.
Reid is disgusting.
What moral bases does dirty harry have?
we have a list of crap Obama has said that we need addressed first.
Hey Harry, isn’t it time for you to go work on the exercise equipment or something?
WTG Carson...stand up, and say what you believe in!
So, Harry - quick question for you.
Tell us how you square Sharia Law with Constitutional protections of individual rights.
Great post! And true.
Great question to corner libs with -
why is your moral basis superior to anyone else’s and how do you determine that without either an objective measure (which itself would be considered superior),
or circular reasoning of referring to your moral basis as proof that it itself is superior?
“Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is calling on Republicans to repudiate Ben Carson’s remarks that Muslims are not fit to be president. “
Sharia law is a constitution . The United States has it’s own constitution and there is no room for a second one that tries to usurp it so Harry Reid is wrong.
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