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Muslim Shouldn\\\'t be US President: Carson

Monday, 21 September 2015


Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Sunday that Muslims were unfit to be president of the United States, arguing their faith was inconsistent with American principles.
The remarks by Carson, who is near the top of opinion polls for the crowded field of Republican candidates, followed a controversy that erupted when front-runner Donald Trump declined to challenge anti-Muslim comments made by a supporter early last week.
Carson, a Christian who says he got the idea for his tax proposals from the Bible, said he thought a U.S. president's faith should be "consistent with the Constitution."
"Without question, there are complex differences between the practice of the Muslim faith and our Constitution, differences that are very real and very much in conflict with one another," spokesman Doug Watts said, according to Reuters.
--Samir--