Will Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney's response regarding Muslims backfire?

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Mitt will not get my vote---as he thinks all the voters in MI will vote for him---he has a surprise coming.

Romney is gaining momentum, and libral columnists like Mansoor Ijaz are now mudslingging at the Romney campaign. If you look up the actual interview and Romney's answer, its clear that Ijaz twisted words so Romney's answer fit his agenda.

First of all, people posting things about what Muslims believe in and all that, LEARN ABOUT THE RELIGION BEFORE POSTING FALSIFIED INFORMATION!!!  Second of all, I agree with what Romney said.  Pick your guys according to merit, not ethnicity or religion.  If he DID pick according to that, I would actually be deeply disappointed in him.  And if the person who is well-qualified and a good candidate for a cabinet position happens to be Muslim, then bring him on.  Don't be hating!  Muslims don't want to destroy the West, contrary to popular American belief.

Nothing wrong  with Mitt's response. Muslims make up such a small percentage of the population why should they be entitled to a high profile post just for the sake of political correctness. I  don't want to shun the Muslim population here in the U.S. But this is a Judeo-Christian, capitalistic society-and I want it to stay that way! If I wanted a Muslim influenced nation I would move to the Mideast. You go Gov. Romney! Lets keep this country in the hands of SANE individuals and preserve a country of pride and safety for our children and grandchildren. Vote for the man who upholds American principles. Vote Mitt!

Islamic Fascism declared war against the U.S. and all non-Islamic nations. The truth is the truth. Why would any free human want to suppress this? http://tinyurl.com/2znnvl

I understand that jihad is part and parcel of Islam. If that is true, then all devlout Muslims must feel the need to convert all people of other faiths to Islam on pain of death. Mohammed had an army and converted non-believers on the point of his sword, i.e., convert or die. Charlemagne used the same approach in converting the eastern European pagans to Christianity. One difference between Christianity and Islam in their historical development is that Christ didn't have an army and didn't convert by coercing people. Mohammed did.

It's amazing--the MSM tries so hard to find dirt on Mitt, from the dog carried on the station wagon to this.  The fact of the matter is that Romney's a smart, capable person who will do great things for America.   Go Romney '08!

Hillary ,
Were you aware that Ijaz has donated heavily to the Democratic Party and that you are his favorite candidate ? C'mon now Hillary , tell the truth . Is Ijaz really working for you , but you were unaware that he wrote the editorial for the Christian Science Monitor ? Enough said !

yea so much for all those that cried out bigot when anyone would try to explain how evangelicals feel. romney supporters(the great majority) called any one that dared to question their called candidate a bigot and hate filled. ye sow what ye have reaped.

romney has proven just who the bigot is and those that would still support him show their intolerance.

republicans hate America and  middle class kids

meanwhile Edwards walks picket line and pledges to help the dying middle class out of the sinkhole bush and co have left us in.

if you notice in no way did I try to imply that edwards is more than just a man. when you read their posts, romney and paul supporters seem to give godlike qualities to their candidate.

go figure how any republican can continue to be a republican. blind faith just leaves you blind.

how many rush to condemn a minor and obviously fabricated slight to those of the Islamic faith -- how few condemn the outright insults and slurs against the LDS religion

 Why are people so quick to accept what this Democratic fundraiser has to say as fact. A lot of these liberal reports in print and on tv are quoting this guy as if they were quoting Romney. It's incredibly misleading. Obviously Mitt Romney is not going to put a high priority on putting a Muslim in his Cabinet just on the basis of his ethnicity but instead will be based on the persons qualifications. Duh! This is another fabricated controversy fabricated by the media.

Mitt should just say no.  If it were me, I would have said, "Not just no but, hell no!"

I can't believe someone sited the "Black Mormon Homepage".  What a joke!

Muslim is now an ethnicity?  This man wants to lead our country and does not know the difference between religious conviction and one own ethnicity?  Mr. Romney you might even have had a Japanese Muslim.

I think we have a bigger problem than what's going on here. Demo's and Rep's are one and the same. Clinton gave us cafda, Bush gave us nafda. Look out folks, you won't have jobs for very long. Nor will you be speaking English for very long.

Makes no difference if Mitt screwed up, fact being muslims don't belong on any government post!

Muslims have shown their intent to infect radical issue everywhere they come into contact with government. America is not sand bunny land!

I think it is telling that Mansoor Ijaz didn't record his own question or Mr. Romney's answer.  In this day of video-, or voice-recording-capabilities on practically any cell phone or with cameras size of your palm somebody as connected as Mansoor Ijaz is politically wouldn't have recorded his "gotcha" moment.  The reason patently is that it wasn't a "gotcha" except in the (most very likely) fantasy-version of Mansoor Ijaz's Christian Science Monitor article.  

Mansoor Ijaz has managed to promote Mansoor Ijaz, demote Mr. Romney, with a stroke of a pen.  How convenient for this political operative.  He has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democrat causes in the last few years and is likely maneuvering himself into favored position in any prospective Democrat-regime, likely mirroring his prospective question for Mr. Romney.  I think we should hold as a standard a true "smoking gun" verifiable video version of such questions and answers before we lend any credence to Mansoor Ijaz (whose credence incidentally is further undercut by his consistent and elevated political contributions to the other side of the aisle).

I am completely with "Colby", who, above, noted Mansoor Ijaz's previous contributions: http://www.newsmeat.com/media_political_donations/Mansoor_Ijaz.php

This is an easy hit-job, via misinterpretation.  I also think it is usually self-serving for Mansoor Ijaz, and his own political prospects.  He spends a fair amount of time pushing those, seemingly, in his original CSM article http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1127/p09s01-coop.html?page=1

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with minorities in a low percentage, making qualified minorites(eduated and experienced) harder to come by, wouldn't it make sense that because there are a higher population of qualified, accessible candidates, by chance not being minorites,it would be easier a to choose a qualified candidate who isn't a minority?  he has to be given a chance to choose. and just because someone is LDS, doesn't make them racist, anyone who is educated in history at all and knew about the origins and history of the religion would know the people of the christian belief in the Book of Mormon are of middle eastern descent, and the religion itself is worldwide, with the population of members worldwide being more than the membership in america, mexicos, central americas and south americas population alone is more than the u.s. get your facts a little more honed in before bashing something you're not a part of, and know little to nothing about.

This whole political process is just disgusting.  People will say or do anything to discredit their opponent.  It is clear from this statement that Romney's words were taken out of context and twisted to put him in false light.  

For those of you bigoted individuals speaking out against the Mormon or islamic faith in relation to politics--look deeper into the facts before you make such negative sweeping generalizations.  The core doctrines and moral values of Mormons are completely in line with the conservative values this nation needs.  I'm not voting for Mitt based on his religion, I'm voting for him based on his values and qualifications!

Startling absent from your article was the fact that the questioner donated to the Clintons in the 1990's and is, by most analysts determination a Clintonite plant.  He paid $100.00 bucks to Romney to get into the event but his article (and the belated timing of it) was a great return on his investment.

Mormon Jihad?  Are you kidding me? I find it incredibly hypocritical that people are condemning Romney's supposed intolerance for Muslims by making intolerant and ignorant slams on Mormonism.  Subjegating the country and the world?  When was the last time a Mormon strapped on a bomb and blew him/herself up in the name of Mormonism?  You may not agree with what Mormons believe in, you may not like the Mormons you know, but the Mormons I know, zealouz though they are, are not hate-mongers and are not militant.

Mitt Romney handed out PRO-GAY CIVIL RIGHTS flyers at a GAY PRIDE Festival in Boston to help win him votes to be the Gov of Massachusetts.

Now he is mailing out anti-gay civil rights flyers in Iowas to try to win votes to be President.

The man is one of the worst blatant liars in politics - unless you think believing in MULTIPLE GODS and believing that JESUS and SATAN are brothers, and believing that lying for power is ok, and that when you die you may become one of millions of GODS equal to the GOD of planet earth - he is not a Christian and he does not tell the truth. Period.

He did nothing at Gov of Massachusetts except oversee a tunnel that was not inspected and collapsed and travel around the country bad-mouthing the state to promote himself. Not a good man at all.

The whole Democratic donation issue is crazy - so no journalist can belong and support a political party ?

Really ?
That is insane.

The last time I looked, this was a Christian nation, founded on Christian beliefs and values. I would hope that Mr. Romney would appoint men and women that are also grounded in the Christian heritage that this nation represents.

In response: Mitt Romney and all Mormons are NOT Christians. They do not worship Christ the way we do.
They think he is just one of many sons of THIS planets GOD and GODDESS. Yes they believe in multiple Gods - not one. They also believe they become GODS equal to the God of this planet.

Again they believe in multiple GODS and GODESSES who produce Angels who come to earth to try to be "good" and then become GODS themselves. They also believe Jesus and Satan are brothers. Those are heretical anti-christ beliefs. Yup Marie Osmond and Harry Reid believe that anti-christian stuff to.

Dont believe the lie. Mormanism is NOT a christian religion.

Why Mormons Are Not Christian.
And are a Cult!

First: Mormons do not follow or believe in the historic Jesus Christ of the Bible, but rather in a difference Jesus. This is why most Biblical Christians emphatically insist that Mormons are not Christians. Let me explain.

The god of the Mormons is not the God of the Bible. To the Mormons, Jesus is the firstborn son of an exalted "man" who became the god of this world. The man-god of Mormonism was made the god of this world because of his good works on another planet somewhere out in the universe. He "earned" godhood, and was thus appointed by a counsel of gods in the heavens to his high position as the god of planet Earth. The Mormon god of this world was a man, like all men, who became a god. This is what the celestial marriage and the temple vows are all about. LDS men, by doing their temple work, are striving for exaltation by which they, too, shall one day become gods. Their wives will be the mother goddesses of "their" world and with their husband will produce the population of their world. This is the Mormon doctrine of "eternal progression."

Note the following quote from the Mormon Journal of Discourses, vol. 1, page 123, made by the LDS Apostle Orson Hyde:

"Remember that God, our heavenly Father, was perhaps once a child, a mortal like we ourselves, and rose step by step in the scale of progress, in the school of advancement; has moved forward and overcome, until He has arrived at the point were He is."

Lorenzo Snow, late President of the Mormon church, made this statement in the second verse of his famous poem entitled, "Man's Destiny":

"As Abra'm, Isaac, Jacob, too, babes, then men--to gods they grew. As man now is, our God once was; As now God is, so man may be,-- Which doth unfold man's destiny. . ."

The God of the Bible is not an exalted man. The God of the Bible is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. The Bible says He is the only God and there are no other Gods. He had no beginning or end and he is a spirit being and never was a man.

Note the clear teaching of the Bible as to who the real God is:

Numbers 23:19, "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?"

Psalms 102:26-27, "They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end."

Isaiah 43:10-11, "Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour."

Isaiah 44:6, "Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God."

Isaiah 44:8, "Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any."

Isaiah 45:21-22, "Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else."

Jeremiah 23:24, "Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD."

Malachi 3:6, "For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."

John 1:16-18, "And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him."

John 4:24, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

Romans 1:22, "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things."

Colossians 1:15, "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:"

1 Timothy 1:17, "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen."

1 Timothy 6:16, "Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen."

Clearly, Mormonism's god is not the God of Christianity who is the God revealed to us in the Bible. The Mormon god is a god formed from the imaginations of Joseph Smith, and in truth is a false, non-existent god or idol.

Second: The Jesus Christ of Mormonism is not the Jesus Christ of the Bible.

The Mormon Jesus is the son of this man-god. The Mormon Jesus is the brother of Lucifer, and according to LDS teaching, he married several of the Marys of the New Testament. He is not, to the LDS church, "God incarnate" as the Bible plainly states. Clearly, the Mormon god and Jesus are not the true

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