Carson: Madrassa Comments Taken Out Of Context

Theindychannel.com ^ | July 10, 2012 | uncredited

[Abathar]

INDIANAPOLIS -- Rep. Andre Carson said he does not advocate educating American students in Muslim principles and that his comments at a recent convention were taken out of context.

The Democratic congressman, who is Muslim, spoke in May to the convention of the Islamic Circle of North America and stressed the importance of education.

"America will never tap into educational innovation and ingenuity without looking at the model that we have in our madrassas, in our schools, where innovation is encouraged, where the foundation is the Quran," Carson told the convention.

Madrassas, the Arabic word for school, have a reputation in Saudi Arabia and Britain for teaching anti-Western values.

Carson said Monday he in no way wanted to suggest that American schools should teach Islamic principles, only that public schools might want to study the methods used by religious schools of all denominations to see why they work so much better.

[Abathar]

He’s also a Dem, means he can stack it twice as high as other liars.

[Ratman83]

I find Lugar to be more if an embarrassment, Lugar continuously acted out as a Republican but was always a RINO. At least Lugar is leaving.

André Carson has always been a race baiter just like his mother, so he sticks to the Dem central theme for blacks.

[octex]

There should be a study of Islam in the Public Schools, the same way we studied Communism when I was in school- Know Your Enemy.
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Only problem would be finding a moderate or conservative instructor to teach the course properly to teach the bad elements of Islam and their effects.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Abathar. Andre Carson ping.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Abathar -- and what was taken out of context?

"America will never tap into educational innovation and ingenuity without looking at the model that we have in our madrassas, in our schools, where innovation is encouraged, where the foundation is the Quran," Carson told the convention.

No way to take that out of context -- he doesn't belong in office in the US.