Herman Cain Denies He Said He Wouldn’t Appoint A Muslim To His Cabinet

Posted by | July 14, 2011 23:15 | Filed under: Top Stories


BBC’s Matthew Wells asked Herman Cain about his previous statement that he would not appoint a Muslim to a post in a Cain administration. Cain says he never made such a statement.

WELLS: You said you wouldn’t have a Muslim in your cabinet two weeks ago. Is that still your position?

CAIN: That wasn’t a statement I made. Let’s get it right. I was asked if I would be comfortable, and my response was I would not be comfortable with a terrorist in my cabinet. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but a lot of the terrorists are Muslims, so I just have to be real careful about who I put in my cabinet.

But Cain did make the statement Wells referenced to Scott Keyes of Think Progress:

KEYES: You came under a bit of controversy this week for some of the comments made about Muslims in general. Would you be comfortable appointing a Muslim, either in your cabinet or as a federal judge?

CAIN: No, I will not. 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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