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Presidential Candidate Under Fire For Comments Regarding Muslims

Presidential Candidate Under Fire For Comments Regarding Muslims


Quickly becoming one of the front-runners in the race for the White House, Ben Carson might have stuck his foot in his mouth. Carson recently said that he didn’t believe any Muslims would ever be qualified for the office of the President because their religion does not embrace the separation of church and state. Now, more than a few Muslim groups are calling on the former brain surgeon to drop out of the race.

Mr. Ben Carson is wrong today to assume and say that American Muslims should not be president of the U.S.,” Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said at a news conference. The group believes that Carson should drop out of the race and, while they are willing to talk to him, they don’t believe that he is qualified to be President of the United States.

Carson’s comments are just the latest in a long line of anti-islamic sentiment coming from the Republican field.