Tuesday, September 22, 2015

YES, BEN CARSON WASN'T ENTIRELY WRONG

As even Ted Cruz noted, it would be illegal to formally prohibit a Muslim from becoming President but that doesn't mean any variety of Islam would be good for America because of the centuries of Islamic intolerance of the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

In The Unbound Prometheus by David S. Landes, there is a nice summary of the inadequacy of Islam in the modern world (pp. 28-9):




1 comment:

Ken Hoop said...

What Muslim is anywhere near the presidency? Keith Ellison? I consider him a lukewarm at best, sellout at worst, on anything from intervention (provided a Dem is doing it) to effective anti-Zionist politics.