Carson Team Defends Muslim Comment: He ‘Wants to Protect America’

In an interview with CNN, Ben Carson campaign business manager Armstrong Williams said the candidate had no plans to apologize for saying America should never have a Muslim candidate, saying he was only protecting America and its values.

“He’s thinking like someone who loves America first, who wants to protect America,” Williams said on CNN’s New Day.

“He understands there are tenets of Islam that hates Jews, will kill homosexuals, will kill Muslims, do not advocate the beliefs and value system that made America into the country it is today,” he continued. “It may have been an inconvenient truth but it is a truth.”

“This is why he’s not a politician, this is why he’s not trying to be politically correct,” Williams said. “This is America, it’s a place of freedom of speech.”

“And freedom of religion!” put in interviewer Alisyn Camerota.

“It is not an issue of religion to Dr. Carson,” he said. “This is an issue of one’s belief system, how they will govern… How you look upon people, how you value people is dictated by what you believe.”

Watch, via CNN:

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