Posted on 09/21/2015 12:54:46 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson is standing by his view that a Muslim should not be president of the United States, telling The Hill in an interview on Sunday that whoever takes the White House should be “sworn in on a stack of Bibles, not a Koran.”
This is one of those wonderful moments when the too-cute-by-half media cynically sets up a gotcha journalism moment to trip up the GOP candidates in order to knock them down. It’s a media art form at this point.
Not. this. time.
This time it backfired, and beautifully. Because finally, we are having a much-needed conversation about jihad and sharia, subject matters verboten by the sharia-compliant gatekeepers of the American media.
We must vocally and unequivocally stand by Ben Carson. This is a critical moment. The media is going to go after Carson like ISIS on a Christian.
Ben Carson stood by his comments concerning the threat posed by a sharia-compliant commander-in-chief. Further, he elaborated on them brilliantly. Instead of a gotcha moment, this became a teachable moment.
Sharia law and the Constitution are incompatible. Our system of governance is based on individual rights and equality for all before the law. This does not exist under the Sharia. Non-Muslims are not equal to Muslims.
And as Robert Spencer points out:
Islamic law infringes upon the freedom of speech, forbidding criticism of Islam. Islamic law denies equality of rights to women. Islamic law denies equality of rights to non-Muslims. If a Muslim renounced all this, he or she could be an effective Constitutional ruler, but in today’s politically correct climate, no one is even likely to ask for such a renunciation. Instead, no one even acknowledges that these really are elements of Islamic law.
No one, that is, except the Muslim clerics who agree with Carson. Syrian Islamic scholar Abd Al-Karim Bakkar said in March 2009: “Democracy runs counter to Islam on several issues…. In democracy, legislation is the prerogative of the people. It is the people who draw up the constitution, and they have the authority to amend it as well. On this issue we differ” — because in Islamic thought, only Allah legislates.
Carson is right. He was not talking about the religious component of Islam. Islam is not just a religion. It is a comprehensive system which deals with all aspects of human life and behavior; legal, religious, dietary, political, et al. It is political Islam that poses a threat to our national security. It denies the freedom of speech, the equality of rights of women, and the equality of rights of non-Muslims, and contains other principles that contradict core Constitutional principles. A Muslim could not adhere to Sharia and take the Oath of Office honestly. If he doesn’t adhere to Sharia, he is not a Muslim, and if he doesn’t take the Oath honestly, he would be a traitor.
“Carson doubles down on no Muslims in the White House,” By Jonathan Easley, The Hill, September 20, 2015
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson is standing by his view that a Muslim should not be president of the United States, telling The Hill in an interview on Sunday that whoever takes the White House should be “sworn in on a stack of Bibles, not a Koran.”
Carson ignited a media firestorm in a Sunday morning interview with Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press,” in which he said he “would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation.”
“I absolutely would not agree with that,” Carson said.
In an interview with The Hill, Carson opened up about why he believes a Muslim would be unfit to serve as commander in chief.
“I do not believe Sharia is consistent with the Constitution of this country,” Carson said, referencing the Islamic law derived from the Koran and traditions of Islam. “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.”
Carson said that the only exception he’d make would be if the Muslim running for office “publicly rejected all the tenants of Sharia and lived a life consistent with that.”
“Then I wouldn’t have any problem,” he said.
However, on several occasions Carson mentioned “Taqiyya,” a practice in the Shia Islam denomination in which a Muslim can mislead nonbelievers about the nature of their faith to avoid religious persecution.
“Taqiyya is a component of Shia that allows, and even encourages you to lie to achieve your goals,” Carson said.
Pushing back at the media firestorm over his remarks, Carson sought to frame himself as one of the few candidates running for president willing to tell hard truths.
“We are a different kind of nation,” Carson said. “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.”
Carson told The Hill that the question of a Muslim president is largely “irrelevant” because no Muslims are running in 2016. He said the question, which Todd is posing to all of the Republican presidential hopefuls who go on his show, “may well have been” gotcha journalism meant to trip the candidates up.
However, he acknowledged the question “served a useful purpose by providing the opportunity to talk about what Sharia is and what their goals are.”
“So often we get into these irrelevant things, because obviously if a Muslim was running for president, there would be a lot more education about Sharia, about Taqiyya,” Carson said.
The issue burst onto the scene last week when GOP front-runner Donald Trump declined to correct a questioner at a campaign rally who declared that President Obama is a Muslim.
Carson said that if put in the same situation, he would have corrected the person at the rally.
“I certainly would not have accepted the premise of a question like that,” Carson said.
However, the retired neurosurgeon declined to criticize Trump, saying those kinds of on-the-spot moments can be difficult to handle in the heat of the moment.
“[Trump] may not have been ready for that,” Carson said. “I can tell you from experience a lot of these things are much easier when you’re quarterbacking from the armchair the next day.”
Good for him, shame the media are too ignorant to actually understand the truths and facts.
The Muslim Brotherhood is’t happy, the conquest of America is being exposed.
Won’t be long all these MSM reporters and talking heads will be eye blinking SOS.
Bingo! It's no more a religion than Bushido was. It's not even a code of ethics. It's a political manifesto posturing as a religion.
That electing a Muslim president is even a consideration in anyone’s mind is disturbing. This is a dogma that stones and kills women, kills gays, kills people who are not like them ... that liberals are open to this flat out proves they are mentally unhinged.
God bless and keep Dr. Ben Carson!
No Moslem U. S. presidents for me.
God Bless Dr. Carson. We need him in the recovery administration.
When people make excuses, ignore, or deny the ideology of a present threat to civilization, and lie about and demagogue the defenders of civilization, we cannot live together anymore. Neither modern leftism or Islam are compatible with free society. We need a separation. That’s the only thing any of our leaders should be talking about.
Look at Muslim countries. Would any sane person want a president with the mindset that arises from Islam? Instead, we need a president who is led by the Holy Spirit, under whose instruction he has put on “the mind of Christ.”
We’ve tried the agnostic and the cynical mindsets, and the results have been chaos and trouble.
This will get Ben’s poll numbers up. I still think he is soft on immigration .
It has been well past time to discuss why Islam is totally and thoroughly incompatible with the West in general and the United States in particular.
The quality of a democracy will never exceed the quality of the press.
As a Christian I can not worship at mecca.
That is all
+1
Carson's campaign should benefit from his statement.
Moslems are as intolerant of dissent as are the GLBT.
The best reason to not elect a Muslim as President is the current occupant of the Whited House. No reason to repeat that mistake.
Re hillary...I don't believe that. Or even as an islamist facilitator she would do tremendous damage...assuming that we get there as a piece, for soebarkha still has an awful lot of destruction yet in mind.
But Carson was supposed to be the team player who would take down the evil Donald so Prince Jebbie could get to his coronation.
Thanks Ben
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