Ben Carson's error is not in saying that someone whose personal beliefs are incompatible with American...
Ben Carson's error is not in saying that someone whose personal beliefs are incompatible with American laws and principles should not be President; his error is in saying that "Muslims" have views that are incompatible with American laws and principles. Many Muslims have different views about what Islam teaches, and lumping them all together is just intellectually sloppy.
So, at least he did come out and say that a Muslim who rejects the supremacy of Sharia over the Constitution, but he is incorrectly implying that this Muslim would be violating the tenets of Islam, and that is not for him to say: that's only for Muslims to say.
So, at least he did come out and say that a Muslim who rejects the supremacy of Sharia over the Constitution, but he is incorrectly implying that this Muslim would be violating the tenets of Islam, and that is not for him to say: that's only for Muslims to say.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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