Tennessee Candidate Asks If Islam Is Cult

American Voices

Tennessee Candidate Asks If Islam Is Cult

July 29, 2010 | ISSUE 46•30

At an event earlier this month, Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Ron Ramsey questioned whether Islam was a religion or a cult, drawing criticism from Muslim leaders. What do you think?

There's no such thing as a stupid question, unless you're a gubernatorial candidate and you ask whether Islam is a cult."

Alex Smerdyakov
Unemployed
He must have chosen that time to ask because the crowd contained so many scholars of Islam."

Hans Schultz
Bricklayer
What an absolutely horrible thing to say out loud.

Lexie Brock
Property Manager

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