It is statements like that one that the rest of the world will hold up as evidence that FR is a little more than a gathering place for intolerant bigots.
Congratulations.
Even intolerant bigotry [and is there a tolerant one?] is good for something. Everything is.
I ask the question everyone else has asked - where are these moderate Muslims? If the Islamofacists are in the minority, how come the majority refuses to rise up and cast them out? How come they are not marching against the Islamofacists? How come they are not throwing out the lunatic Immans? And they just do not want to destory Israel and also the west. They want to destroy everything not Muslim. Just ask the Indians and the Asian nations.
...and rocket scientists, obviously.
If one believes that Islam is a religion in the sense we understand religion, sure it's possible to be both. But it's not...Islam is no mere religion, it's also theocracy, which does conflict with being an American.
He can say he's both, he can assert he's both, he may even believe he's both. But there's an inherent internal conflict between the two that cannot be resolved; he will, at some point, have to choose.
It's not because someone criticized him; it's not because someone outlawed it; there's an inherent, internal, inevitable, irreconcilable conflict. Those who come from a society that understands a separation of church and state...have a fundamentally different world view than those who come from a Muslim society, where they are one and the same.
Islam is no mere religion...it comes with it's own system of government which is antithetical to ours.
You'd be surprised at the results of a FR poll that was worded much like what he said.
I think you give him too much credit. I'd just go with total moron.