Cain doubles down on Muslims: He will only be comfortable with them serving in office if he can gauge their loyalty through a 1-on1 conversation!!!

[웃 910]

Herman Cain: Muslims Must Show Loyalty To Work For Me

Cain Would Want To Gague Loyalty To Constitution

(CNN) -- GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain stood firm Friday on his promise to make Muslims prove loyalty to the U.S. Constitution before appointing them to his administration - a test, he has said, that would not apply to people of other faiths.

The former CEO of Godfather's Pizza denied that the proposed test is a form of discrimination when pressed Friday by CNN's John King.

"That's not discrimination. It's called trying to protect the American people," Cain said. "This nation is under attack constantly by people who want to kill all of us, so I'm going to take extra precaution."

In March, Cain made headlines when he told a Think Progress blogger that he would feel uncomfortable appointing a Muslim as a member of his cabinet or as a federal judge. And while speaking on Fox News on Wednesday, he said there was a "greater dangerous part of the Muslim faith" than other religions.

Cain told King on Friday that he would be comfortable with a Muslim serving in office only if he could gauge the person's sense of loyalty through a one-on-one conversation.

"I never said I would discriminate against Muslims or any other religion for that matter, but I am going to take extra precautions if a Muslim person who is competent wants to work in my administration," he said.

Cain has grown in popularity over recent months. The latest poll released by Quinnipiac University on June 8 puts him in third place in the 2012 GOP field, with 10%. He falls behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who placed first, and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who came in second.

http://www.wsbtv.com/politics/28205691/detail.html

[Darnell 8,479]

I would suggest a different approach -

any of 'his administration' new workers that come in, that are Muslim, undergo the extended FBI background check.

Oh wait - that's already the norm, if one is Muslim.

What's he going on about? Checks are already in place, maybe his aides not train him about this?

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I would suggest a different approach -

any of 'his administration' new workers that come in, that are Muslim, undergo the extended FBI background check.

Oh wait - that's already the norm, if one is Muslim.

It is? In Federal employment?

[Ayman___ 92]

I think any person applying for Federal employment should have background check not just because they are Muslim Even one on one conversation I agree.Even in any Job we have this background check and one on one conversation with employer.Even Non Muslim can be bad.Depends on the person :whistle:Example>>> Oklahoma bombing of Federal Building... American, non Muslim.

Edited June 11, 2011 by AYMAN_RINA

[Vi-Jay 218]

I think any person applying for Federal employment should have background check not just because they are Muslim Even one on one conversation I agree.Even in any Job we have this background check and one on one conversation with employer.Even Non Muslim can be bad.Depends on the person :whistle:Example>>> Oklahoma bombing of Federal Building... American, non Muslim.

What do you think about Cain's concerns regarding Sharia law?

(Frankly, I think Cain is making himself look an extremist)

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I doubt that Muslims are lining up to work for this jerk.

[Darnell 8,479]

It is? In Federal employment?

Ya, Post 9/11, things changed up a bit.

[Ayman___ 92]

What do you think about Cain's concerns regarding Sharia law?

(Frankly, I think Cain is making himself look an extremist)

I agree with you.I think he's going to far and to me he's being not fair to Muslim people.All should go through the same routine when getting hired.

[Vi-Jay 218]

I doubt that Muslims are lining up to work for this jerk.

Doubt much to worry about. Unless someone decides to run him as VP.

What's your opinion regarding Cain's Sharia law concerns?

[Sofiyya 1,687]

He's worried about Muslims imposing whatever he thinks Sharia law is in America (how would that happen?), but not at all concerned about violating civil rights laws that already exist to protect us.

That proves he's stupid enough to be president.

What do you think about Cain's concerns regarding Sharia law?

(Frankly, I think Cain is making himself look an extremist)

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Which federal agencies are treating Muslims differently than non-Muslims in hiring? If it happens, it's not common.

Ya, Post 9/11, things changed up a bit.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Shades of 2008!

Alienating American Muslims

[ScottThuy 140]

Its actually a small step up from his previous position of no muslims in his administration..

[Sofiyya 1,687]

This type of political religious bigotry has been visited upon us before during election campaigns, not with Muslims, but with Catholics. Catholics who side with prejudiced politicians and point fingers at Muslims now have forgotten that it was recently pointed at them, too.

Sen. John F. Kennedy confronted concerns about his religion head-on in the 1960 campaign that made him the first Roman Catholic U.S. president.

On Sept. 12, 1960, months after speaking out against anti-Catholic sentiment in the spring primaries, the Democratic presidential nominee gave a televised speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association directly addressing critics who worried that a Catholic president would be beholden to the pope.

An excerpt from Kennedy's speech follows.

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish — where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source — where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials — and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew — or a Quaker — or a Unitarian — or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim — but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end — where all men and all churches are treated as equal — where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice — where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind — and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.

That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of presidency in which I believe — a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

I would not look with favor upon a president working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty. Nor would our system of checks and balances permit him to do so — and neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test — even by indirection — for it. If they disagree with that safeguard they should be out openly working to repeal it.

I want a chief executive whose public acts are responsible to all groups and obligated to none — who can attend any ceremony, service or dinner his office may appropriately require of him — and whose fulfillment of his presidential oath is not limited or conditioned by any religious oath, ritual or obligation.

This is the kind of America I believe in — and this is the kind I fought for in the South Pacific, and the kind my brother died for in Europe. No one suggested then that we may have a "divided loyalty," that we did "not believe in liberty," or that we belonged to a disloyal group that threatened the "freedoms for which our forefathers died."

And in fact this is the kind of America for which our forefathers died — when they fled here to escape religious test oaths that denied office to members of less favored churches — when they fought for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom — and when they fought at the shrine I visited today, the Alamo. For side by side with Bowie and Crockett died McCafferty and Bailey and Carey — but no one knows whether they were Catholic or not. For there was no religious test at the Alamo.

I ask you tonight to follow in that tradition — to judge me on the basis of my record of 14 years in Congress — on my declared stands against an ambassador to the Vatican, against unconstitutional aid to parochial schools, and against any boycott of the public schools (which I have attended myself) — instead of judging me on the basis of these pamphlets and publications we all have seen that carefully select quotations out of context from the statements of Catholic church leaders, usually in other countries, frequently in other centuries, and always omitting, of course, the statement of the American bishops in 1948 which strongly endorsed church-state separation, and which more nearly reflects the views of almost every American Catholic.

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I don't have the exact video but this Muslim comedian was asked how Muslims can improve their reputation (from perspective on non-Muslims in the US)....He basically said that most Muslims are known in the medical field, computers, etc., and that we need more Muslims studying the arts. Becoming comedians, directors, actors, dancers, musicians, etc..