Posted on 03/28/2011 2:32:36 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Herman Cain assailed as 'bigoted' over Muslim remarks By: CNN Political Producer Shannon Travis
Washington (CNN) - A leading Muslim advocacy group accused potential presidential candidate Herman Cain of spewing "bigoted speech" Monday following remarks he made at a conservative conference last weekend.
While attending the Conservative Principles Conference last weekend in Iowa, Cain told a reporter- if he became president – he would not appoint a Muslim to his cabinet or as a federal judge.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) expressed outrage on Monday, saying Cain's words show how "right wing" conservatives are currently engaging in Muslim bashing.
"Even post 9/11 you didn't have this level of mainstreaming of anti-Muslim hate as you have now," said Ibrahim Hooper, National Communications Director for CAIR.
Cain's comments came in response to a question from a reporter for liberal-leaning Think Progress about potentially appointing a Muslim in a Cain administration.
"No, I will not," Cain responded. "And here's why. There is this creeping attempt, there is this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government. It does not belong in our government. This is what happened in Europe. And little by little, to try and be politically correct, they made this little change, they made this little change. And now they've got a social problem that they don't know what to do with hardly."
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Thank God someone gets it, and thank you Herman for speaking the truth!
WOPW
They will be coming for my pastor...
Yesterday he said theres no religious rights in America anymore...
unless you are Moslem...
Oh noez hes a bigot...
:)
WOPW
They will be coming for my pastor...
Yesterday he said theres no religious rights in America anymore...
unless you are Moslem...
Oh noez hes a bigot...
:)
BUT go off on the offending cretin..
Exactly. This is the exact correct tone to take and if Hooper doesn’t like it, he can take a hike.
Hmmm. I dont much have a problem with what he says. Its the darn truth and bet you $100.00 its what 90% of what population thinks but will not say. Thank you Mr. Cain. The Muslim community has given me no reason to think that they are full fledged Americans with American values. Im sure they are lovely but not in leadership quite yet.
you go Herman!
think about drafting Allen West to run with you .
You will prevail over the Obama race-baiting machine 100%
I’m with Herman Cain
The nerve of these white privilege libs calling Herman Cain “Bigoted”. None of these libs have ever seen Jim Crow nor were the target of “Night Rides”.
ISLAMIZATION PING LIST:
Infidels: freepmail me if you want on or off this list.
When the Muslim community fields the equivelent of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and equals their combat record instead of providing the likes of Major Hassan and Sgt. Asan Akbar then I'll start to consider that they are full fledged American's with American values. The standard has been set. It's up to them to equal or surpass it before I'll grant immediate support to them as I do Japanese-Americans.
"All of us can't stay in the [internment] camps until the end of the war. Some of us have to go to the front. Our record on the battlefield will determine when you will return and how you will be treated. I don't know if I'll make it back."
Technical Sergeant Abraham Ohama, Company "F", 442nd RCT, Killed in Action 10/20/1944
Until then, tough.
TS
The racist bigots calling truth tellers bigots. Just keep the racist bigots screaming Herman. The truth hurts their ears and singes their corrupt and ugly souls.
Cain... you did good on this.
Cain is 100% correct....and CAIR is an Islamic Terrorist group that preaches and promotes virulent Anti-Semitism
Cain understands Islam, and that is what upsets the Islamic Hate Groups
One man’s bigotry is another man’s freedom of (opinion) speech. Pass it one.
To assume that Cain has deep-seated issues concerning Muslims is as bigoted as a Muslims believing that Jews are sub-human.
According to the 1st Amendment, who’s wrong here?
I posted the video earlier today. This is CNN’s store on it.
As negative as the lamestream media wants to make this, the responses I’m seeing here and other places are overwhelmingly positive.
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