There is no ambiguity in Carson’s statements during his Meet the Press interview on September 20. He’s clearly stated his belief that Islam is fundamentally incompatible with the Constitution.
There seems to be quite a trend of disingenuous religious-political analysis on the Constitution and religious texts, whereby only various denominations of Christianity, and not other religions like Islam, are protected by the Constitution.
In past birther conspiracies, politicians have claimed that President Obama is a Muslim, as though the label is necessarily an insult. Rick Santorum himself has said that he does not believe in the separation of the church and the state.
One could easily point to the Constitution, which states quite clearly, that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”.
Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802 elaborates further, explicitly referring to a “wall of separation between church and state”. However, conservatives commonly respond with the idea that it is not a religion. Allen West called it a “theocratic political construct”. Many more note images of violence in the Quran itself.
Deuteronomy 17:12 (New International Version) explicitly calls for the death of anyone who shows contempt for priests. Even though Levictus 25 prohibits the poor treatment of Israelite slaves, it notes that the Israelites’ slaves “are to come from the nations around (them); from them you may buy slaves.”
Even in the New Testament, Corinthians 14 explicitly supports misogyny, saying that it is disgraceful for women to speak in church while making no reference to the role of men in churches. These, along with hundreds of other rules in Christianity, have been enforced by governments to varying degrees throughout history.
The religion has played a role in numerous wars, from the commonly pointed out Crusades to the Thirty Years’ War and from the invasions of the Americas to 2003’s Islamophobia-fueled invasion of Iraq.
No sane politician would call Christianity a “theocratic political construct” or a religion that is “incompatible” with the Constitution. All religions, including both Christianity and Islam, are tools that can be used for evil.
But at the same time, the passions derived from godly faith have fueled hundreds of years of progress. Numerous Muslim contributors throughout history have included Mohammad Abdus Salam, whose work on electroweak unification that won him the Nobel Prize and Fethullah Gulen, whose message of tolerance has won millions of followers.
Many have raised concerns regarding the lack of coverage of Islamic scholars condemning terrorism. And yet even a cursory attempt at researching their statements brings up condemnations and attempts to start anti-terrorism campaigns from hundreds of scholars here, here, and here.does he really believe the bigotry or is he just playing to the base as so many do most know what they say is untrue and just red meat for base consumption. none the less more Americans are incensed than those who applaud the show of, " i'm just like you", hard to sell in the Black skinned shell he inhabits.
given his numbers in the poll shows the hypocrisy of republican racial hate being legitimate but instead more of a tool to incite those still stuck in the past. confirming their racial angst brings them together for just that one reason the fact that they are voting against their own interest backs that up.
