BEN CARSON: LET’S NOT HAVE A MUSLIM PRESIDENT:

BEN CARSON: LET’S NOT HAVE A MUSLIM PRESIDENT:

 “It is hard to imagine the abuse that Carson is going to take for those remarks,” John Hinderaker writes at Power Line. “He’d better batten down the hatches. But what he said is true: Islam is incompatible with the Constitution because it does not recognize a separation between church and state:”

But world-wide, the trend in Islam is more toward resurgent fundamentalism than toward tolerant moderation. And, as I understand Islam, Carson is correct that a person who holds faithfully to Islamic doctrine has views that are incompatible with our Constitution. Carson will take enormous abuse for saying the unsayable, but he deserves credit for putting an important issue–which bears strongly, to cite just one example, on our immigration policy–on the table. If his understanding of Islam (and mine) is wrong, no doubt correction will follow. But that is a candid discussion that needs to take place.

Read the whole thing.