In a fresh anti-Muslim rant, the Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said that he does not believe a Muslim should be president, sparking fresh criticism on the GOP politics towards the American Muslim community.
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“Some people thought I should have defended the president in terms of the question that was asked the other night”, Trump said. Asked if he considered Islam to be consistent, he said: “No, I do not”.
Trump also commented on the man who stirred the pot last week, when he asked what Trump could do to “get rid of them”, in reference to Muslims and accused Obama of being part of the religious group.
“No I do not”.
Appearing on a talk show on Sunday, he said, “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation”.
“I’ve said it always, I’ve never had a problem with Muslims”.
“Carson, who has been near the top of several presidential polls, said he would consider voting for a Muslim in Congress “[depending] on who that Muslim is and what their policies are”.
“Would I be comfortable?” the businessman replied. “I know so many Muslims that are such fabulous people“.
“We have radicals that are doing things”, Trump said on “State of the Union” broadcast on CNN. “I don’t think so!” wrote Trump.
In the NBC interview, Carson said he believes that Obama was born in the USA and is Christian, saying he has “no reason to doubt” what the president says. He felt very, very strongly and very powerfully about something, and, you know, whether we all agree with it or not, it wasn’t my obligation to defend. “The answer is, at the end of the day, you’ve got to go through the rigors, and people will look at everything”.
Politicians and pundits from both sides of the aisle are blasting Trump for not moving on from the issue, including his GOP presidential rival Sen. “You can not hold these kinds of views and at the same time say you will represent all Americans, of all faiths and backgrounds”. Trump – who has long stoked the so-called “birther movement” – failed to correct the misconception and appeared instead to lend it credence.
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“Barack Obama is a talented man and by the way he’s an American, he’s a Christian his problem isn’t the fact that he was born here or what his faith is”, Bush said, according to reports.
