Which many of the Republican candidates have already said they don’t support.
I have some highly educated, otherwise intelligent friends, very successful in business who spout the same nonsense. Who are global warming deniers, etc. I’m disappointed, but not shocked that Dr. Brain Surgeon is a whack-job when he gets out of his area of expertise.
But even so, I’ve never been one to advocate someone with no political experience to be president. You don’t shoot to the top of any organization without some experience in said organization.
I’m still not convinced that Carson even knows the BIll of Rights. Or any of the other candidates aside from Cruz and Paul.
Al Franken quotes his father as saying, “I should’ve known the first Jew to run for President would be a Presbyterian”
Nitpick: “the government” is not a single organization. Unless you’re a federal executive branch official, you’re coming from outside the part of the government you want to be elected to. In the early days of our republic, it actually did work a little like an organization ladder. Adams was VP, Jefferson was Secretary of State and then VP and then President, Madison was SecState, Monroe was SecWar and Secstate, Quincy Adams was SecState. But since then we’ve almost exclusively nominated people with no federal executive branch experience. In that respect, Hillary Clinton actually can claim to be the most qualified person running.
My understanding from reading some of your other posts is that you don’t think Islam per-se is to blame for the results of this survey but instead it is factors peculiar to Malaysia, and peculiar to Egypt and to Niger, Pakistan etc.
What if Carson had said something like “You know, true Muslims don’t support executing people who convert away from Islam, but in case someone had such a belief it should disqualify him or her from being President”, would that mean he is a hateful bigot?
How would should Carson answer the 86% of Egyptians who support the death penalty for apostasy and who claim they are true Muslims?
Why not? Christians do it all the time. And so do Catholics.
That’s why political correctness and anti-bigotry are not always the same thing. IMO, it’s pretty bigoted to tell a group what they should believe, which is basically what prominent figures do when they give “fatwas” about what Muslims actually believe.
Jesus, get a room.
Do you think you’re quoting someone, apart from yourself?
Are any Egyptians running for president of the U.S.? (They can’t, you know. You might want to attend the course on the Constitution that Carson obviously skipped in high school.)
The problem with such polls is that they do not seem to reflect reality. Egyptians are not enforcing laws against apostasy, whatever they may tell a pollster.
On the other hand, Muslims in the U.S., France, Germany, etc., (surrounded by a different culture), have no such attitudes toward apostasy. So Carson’s remarks in the context of U.S. elections are based on ignorant prejudices in which he tries to demonize all the U.S. citizens who happen to be Muslim. (Carson does not strike me as someone who is making claims deliberately to stir up the xenophobe base; he seems to really believe this stuff–demonstrating his utter ignorance and willingness to spout hatred without even trying to educate himself.)
That’s only partly true:
36% of 16 to 24-year-olds believe if a Muslim converts to another religion they should be punished by death, compared with 19% of over-55s
59% of Muslims would prefer to live under British law, compared with 28% who would prefer to live under Sharia law
Not a majority, but a large enough minority that it would be hard to condemn people for wanting to know about the candidate’s personal views on those subjects.
You will note that while I referred to attitudes in the U.S., France, and Germany, you had to go to Great Britain, (with a larger population more recently arrived from Pakistan where Wahhabism has been promoted for a bit over twenty years).
None of that makes any sense when some twit makes accusations about Muslims in the U.S.
We don’t know that unless we poll them.
Should be rather quick work to poll all three of them :).
Aren’t Catholics Christians?
Not according to some.
Is that a trick question?
I don’t DO NOT say “Trinopus Says Ben Carson Unfit to Be U.S. President.”
I won’t deny that I am not unoutraged by Carson’s statement.