Herman Cain says voters across the country should have the right to prevent Muslims from building mosques in their communities.
In an exchange on “Fox News Sunday,” the Republican presidential contender said that he sided with some in a town near Nashville who were trying to prevent Muslims from worshiping in their community.
“Our Constitution guarantees the separation of church and state,” he said. “Islam combines church and state. They’re using the church part of our First Amendment to infuse their morals in that community, and the people of that community do not like it. They disagree with it.”
Asked by host Chris Wallace if any community could ban a mosque if it wanted to, Cain said: “They have a right to do that.”
Cain, an African-American who grew up during the civil rights era, claimed he was not discriminating against Muslims. He said it was “totally different” than the fight for racial equality because there were laws prohibiting blacks from advancing.
Nonetheless, Cain has drawn backlash for comments about Muslims in the past, saying that he would be uncomfortable if a Muslim served in his Cabinet if he were elected president.
“I’m willing to take a harder look at people that might be terrorists,” Cain said Sunday. “If you look at my career, I have never discriminated against anybody. … I’m going to err on the side of caution.”
(Source: Politico)
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Cain says mosques–but not churches and synagogues–should be banned because mosques promote both a religion (Islam) and a legal system (sharia). He bizarely claims that this violates church-state separation.
This same bad logic could be used to ban synagogues, since they promote both a religion (Judaism) and a legal system (halacha). Of course, allowing a house of worship to operate in a community is totally different from making its scripture the law of the land. But Cain’s intolerant views can threaten Jews just as easily as Muslims.
If they can ban mosques, then they can ban shuls! I assume he has no idea that our right to build shuls is guaranteed by Federal law.
He says what a lot of people are thinking but are afraid to say.
The problem with this is that if you can do this to one sect of religious folks (ie. muslims) then you can do this to anyone, and who will be next? They could target us next. Chas v’shulem. This is America, and you cannot do this. You cannot discriminate against one religion. Or ideology.
after they ban Islam, they will ban Schitah, then circumcision then Shuls and minyanim. Sorry, but he has over stepped his rights of free speech.
This ban is unconstitutional and again we see no true leadership from the right.
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Your comment should, more correctly, read: he isays what alot of RACISTS are thinking but, B”H are afraid to say.
Cain would look much better with his head on his back.
AriInMD and yaakov doe, wrong answer. While in both Yiddishkeit and Islam, there is no separation between state and religion, nevertheless Yiddishkeit accepts that dina d’malchusa dina, i.e., as long as we are guests in galus, we accept the rulership of the law of the land as long as it does not contradict the Torah law. For instance, if Holland makes a law forbidding sh’chita, then Jews in Holland can import kosher meat from elsewhere, or stop eating meat, or pack and go elsewhere. This is what we have done for the past 2000 yrs. In Islam, there is no such concept as dina d’malchusa dina. By them, is “my way or the highway”. The nations of the world have recognized that Jews have been law-abiding citizens of their host countries, which is not the case as far as Muslims are concerned. That’s a big difference, and the goym recognize it.
#5: The guy’s an idiot, but he certainly has the right to spout his idiocy.
His approach would allow banning any religious group that is politically incorrect at the moment, which includes us. It also ignores that the Islamic world is sharply divided between those support al Queda and those opposed (and therefore allied with the US). While Cain is a political leader worthy of our consideration, he never went to law school (his background was in computer science and mathematics, followed by a career in business), and it shows.
Synagogues will be next.
What is really scary is that the other Republicans aren’t calling him out on this dangerous idea.
CharlieHall,
We are all waiting for YOU & the dailykooks to call out most of the socialist liberal left for their stupidity.