Ben Carson said on Sunday that Muslims were unfit to be president of the United States

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    I don't have a problem with Muslims but I am 100% against muzzles.
     
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    Oh my! another synonym for racist. I bet you have never read the Koran either. Have you read of the Tribe of Shabazz?
     
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    Spot on! How could one support Sharia and take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution?
    Geez! Now that I think of it, it may have been done before.
     
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    While I mostly agree, I'm afraid it is still the case that the voters will only elect someone who either believes in mythical superbeings, or pretends to believe in them.

    Given that those are the only two choices, and given the nature of the job, I prefer the latter.

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    It was literally the main point of the discussion:
    https://www.facebook.com/realbencarson?fref=ts
     
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    So if he's a "very smart man", what makes you think that his differing viewpoints from yours are dementia rather than a very smart man thinking logically, if perhaps hyperbolically? Do you want to keep the ladder down for poor investments?

    I think, based on his quote, that he chose to put as a higher priority to "support and defend the Constitution", which a Muslim who does not renounce Sharia law (in his mind, anyway) cannot. I find it odd that you wouldn't agree to that.
     
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    I don't think it was. You are quoting from the 'let me walk back what I said yesterday because it didn't go over so well' interview.

    Here's the transcript of the original.

    You'll note he does not mention Sharia law. At all.

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    Fair enough. You could parse and say "what aspect of Islam is not consistent with the constitution?" and the main answer would be "Sharia law", but I don't see this at all as a sign of "walking back"--if anything, it's a double-down on it. He's not apologizing for a single thing he said, which is kind of the point of walking back, right?
     
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    To be fair, the first two (and depending on the fundamentality of your particular branch, 4 of the 5) make him a pretty hypocritical Christian.
     
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    I did not say Carson may have dementia because we disagree.

    I am going by what people who have followed him for years, which I have not, have observed. Numerous journalists, for example, have said that in the past he was always clear, articulate, logical - even if they disagreed with him. Now he always looks half asleep, struggles to find words, says things that are just totally absurd (like slaves working hard so their children could have a better life! Their children were slaves, or killed, or ran away.)

    I don't claim to be an expert on dementia. But smart people can go into declines. And he has been just bizarre.
     
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    You made that up, or someone did and you accept it as fact.
     
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