What Ben Carson really says about Muslims

Mr. Carson reportedly said he wouldn't put/trust/want a muslim running his great nation.
What he really seems to be saying, however, is
"[muslims don't count much for my numbers or political fortunes, and if it's popular in my most affluent rich racist constituencies to trash them, then i'll trash 'em. heck, if it'll raise my numbers, damn right i'll trash 'em.]"

Nevermind it could or would offend someone like John Coltrane or Ahmet Ertegun or Mohamed Ali or Malcolm X or Cat Stevens or Karim AbdulJabbar or Mohammad Abdus Salam or Saladin or Sadat or that king of Morocco who was the first foreign leader to officially recognize the independent United States, etc. etc. etc., to say nothing of the original and classical Muslim leaders who oversaw the establishment and radiation of an emperium that inherited both the Roman/Byzantine and Sassanid empires in the Near East that has endured in some form or another for more than a millennium.

There are not a few Muslims (among 1.2 or 1.6 billion, that's at least a few to a few dozen million, or actually any number of people) who believe that both the American values embodied in its constitution and principles of government and political theory and the values of islam and the tradition of its messenger and early leaders are much closer together than the dictatorships and fanaticism that riddle the islamicate world today and are in fact, almost nearly perfectly aligned, save for the muslim catechism (articles of faith).

While I agree that the loudest manifestations of "islam" today are contrary to American values and principles of government, i must also assert that muslim fanatics today are also contrary to the original values of islam itself as preached and practiced by the prophet of islam, by his earliest successors, the scholars who set the cornerstones of jurisprudence upon a system of consensus and those leaders that followed this tradition through a very long, global history.

Also, upon/or by way of reflection, [as the opposite of a counter-example,] Sadat apparently once said "the [coptic orthodox] pope should know that i am a muslim president of a muslim country," in a country that in its 63-year long post-independence republican history would have, to date, only a handful of generals and cabinet ministers who are Christian (this is an impression, not a fact and it is not verified).


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