No, I wouldn't vote for anyone who believes it's okay for politics to be influenced by religion - and muslims do this to the greatest extent.
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Oct 23, 2015
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Oct 24, 2015
Islam has no place in a civilized Western society.
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No; the cultural differences are too great. I am qualified to say so as I have lived and worked in the middle east and I married into a Muslim family.
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Of course.
I could care less about what someone believes privately. If he was the best candidate for the job, I'd be ecstatic.
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What about is she was the best candidate for the job?
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For all those who said no, I have one question:
Why not?
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Islam is incompatible with our ideas of democracy, Islam codifies gender inequality and discrimination against non-Muslims. If elected it would his (under Islam Bukhari (88:219) - "Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler." so it wouldn't be a woman) duty to force Islam onto the country, with all the laws that go with it. So as a cleric Sufi Muhammad, recently put it, "True Islam permits neither elections, nor democracy."
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This is an interesting answer. But I wonder if you would also still consider voting for a follower of Christianity or Judaism considering not only are both of those religions closely related to Islam, but they also codify slavery and stoning in the Old Testament (among other outdated and unpleasant things).
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Given that most, by most I mean over 80+%, of Christians and Jews, don't follow the Bible or the Torah and just pick and choose what parts they do follow, it's not that big of a problem. But if the candidate was standing up saying how they would return the US to the bible, etc I would NOT vote for them.
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Would you therefore be willing to vote for a Muslim who didn't follow the ideology you have highlighted in your original reply? I imagine there are plenty of Muslims who do not follow those teachings, but would you still refuse to vote for them based solely on their religion?
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Islam Bukhari is Hadith, not Quran. Many Muslims disagree about what elements of Haddith are binding doctrine and what parts are mere cultural tradition that is free to change with the times. A parallel from Christianity would be the Law of Moses, which many Christians argue is no longer binding on modern Christians.
You're confusing one Muslim ideology with the whole of Islam. If a Muslim candidate explicitly endorsed democracy and equality of the sexes and denounced Hadiths that say otherwise as non-binding, would it change your perspective about that candidate?
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Oct 23, 2015
Whether I like it or not, I live in a Catholic country, Christianity is a part of its history and tradition.
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If any candidate agrees that the government should not participate in the establishment of religion, favor one religion over another, and should allow people to freely exercise their religious beliefs without impeding the rights of others, I would be willing to vote for them if I felt their policies were best for our country.
If a candidate did not have these attitudes toward religion, I would probably not vote for them.
Long ago, we decided that neither a theocracy nor a state-sponsored religion was the way to go. That was a step in the right direction.
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You're supposed to keep religion for yourself (that's secularism). So I wouldn't mind because he/she is supposed to keep any form of religion for him/herself.
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Muslims are humans. None has the right to alienate them on the basis of a religious identity. People are sensible or ignorant irrespective of their identities. it doesn't matter whether the person is muslim or hindu or christian or woman or gay.
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