Alwaght- Over the past few days US Republicans and Democrats presidential candidates have clashed over policies regarding Muslims in the country.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has said no Muslim should ever be elected president of the United States.
In an interview with NBC News broadcast on Sunday, Carson said Muslims are not suitable to become president, claiming Islam - a religion professed by some 3 million Americans - is inconsistent with the US constitution.
In a quick rejoinder, US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has censured Republican White House contender Ben Carson for making inappropriate remarks about Muslims. “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation,” Carson said. “I absolutely would not agree with that.”
Independent Senator Sanders, who is seeking Democratic nomination, said in a statement released late on Sunday that Carson’s comments were out of line.
“I am very disappointed that Dr. Carson would suggest that a Muslim should not become president of the United States,” he said.
“It took us too long to overcome the prejudice against electing a Catholic or an African-American president. People should be elected to office based on their ideas, not their religion or the color of their skin,” said the Vermont senator.
Carson's comments came two days after frontrunner Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump failed to respond to anti-Muslims remarks by a Trump supporter at a campaign rally.
The white man wrongly called US President Barack Obama a non-American Muslim and said Muslims are "a problem in this country."
And in an interview on Sunday, Trump said that a Muslim in the White House is "something that could happen.
Asked whether he would be comfortable with a Muslim president of the US, he added, “Some people have said it already happened, frankly," in a clear reference to Obama. "But of course you won't agree with that."
A day earlier, however, the Republican frontrunner said he loves Muslims and that he would contemplate putting a Muslim in his cabinet. "I love the Muslims. I think they're great people.”
According to a recent opinion poll , nearly a third of Americans, including 43 percent of Republicans, believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim, according to a new poll. Another 13 percent of Obama’s fellow countrymen think that the president was born outside the US.
The CNN/ORC survey found that 29 percent of polled Americans think that the president is Muslim while 11 percent said that Obama was not a religious person. Another 14 percent had no opinion on the president’s faith at all.
Meanwhile Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison, the first African-American Muslim from Minnesota to serve in Congress, also censured Carson for his remarks.
“The freedom of religion is a founding principle of our nation. Our Constitution gives this right to all Americans -- including elected officials,” Ellison said in a statement on Sunday.
“For Ben Carson, Donald Trump, or any other Republican politician to suggest that someone of any faith is unfit for office is out of touch with who we are as a people,” he stated.
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