Romney on Muslims in His Cabinet

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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007 ... s-cabinet/

Tuesday, November 27, 2007



MITT ROMNEY

Big Muslims-in-the-Cabinet Roundup

I'll have more on the Mansour Ijaz Christian Science Monitor piece in the near future, but for now, I can say that after talking with Ijaz, he stands by his account in the CSM 100 percent, and contends there is no way that Mitt Romney could have misinterepreted or misheard his question.

He is certain that his question was whether Romney would "consider" including qualified Americans of the Islamic faith in his cabinet as advisers on national security matters, and that there was no aspect of quotas, guarantees, or promises to the question. He asked the question, Romney repeated the question so that everyone in the room could hear, and Ijaz clarified when Romney believed the question was whether he would have Muslim advisors regarding the war on terror.

He stands by his description of Romney's answer including the claim that Romney rejected the idea of a Muslim cabinet member based on the "numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population."

Romney remembers the question differently, telling MSNBC earlier today that "No, that's not what I said. His question was, Did I need to have a Muslim in my Cabinet in order to confront radical jihad, or would it be important to have a Muslim in my Cabinet?' And I said no, I don't think you need a Muslim in the Cabinet to take on radical jihad any more than we needed a Japanese American to understand the threat that was coming from Japan or something of that nature."

[AbdiWahab252]

Ismahan,

He also suggested that they should put spies &listening devices in mosques to monitor them.

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Vote for Ms Clinton

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Vote for Ron Paul 8)

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Yeah RuPaul for president his/her campaign election slogan Supermodel (You Better Work)

[Ina Baxar]

He stands by his description of Romney's answer including the claim that Romney rejected the idea of a Muslim cabinet member based on the "numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population."



As I was listening to this lady on the radio yesterday reacting to this , she said--->"well Mr Romney if that's the case why should we elect a mormon as a president if we go by their NUMBER as a percentage in our population "

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@ Ina Baxar.

Warya, what Radio Station was it ?

[Ina Baxar]

Air America !

[Grant]

http://www.allaboutmormons.com/number_of_mormons.php

There are about the same number of Mormons in the US as there are Muslims. There are about the same number of Mormons in the world as there are Jews.

70 percent of the world membership are CONVERTS. The recently established African missions already have a quarter million members.

Number of Mormons
Worldwide, there are over 13 million Mormons, nearly the same as the number of Jews.
In the United States the LDS Church is the 4th largest individual denomination with over 5.5 million members, a population about equal to the number of Muslims.
Only 12% of all Mormons live in Utah. Most Mormons do not live in North America.
Aside from the United States, other regions with significant numbers of Mormons include Mexico and Asia (1 million members each), South America (3 million members), and Central America and Europe (about half a million each). The rapid growth the Church has been experiencing in Africa, where the number of Mormons already passes a quarter of a million, is particularly exciting.
After Catholics, the LDS Church is the largest religion by number in ten U.S. states.
(Accurate as of December 31st, 2004, December, 2002, 1999?.)
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LDS Worldwide Statistics (Selected Countries): Country Percent LDS Country Number of LDS
Tonga 46.0% USA 5,503,192
Samoa 36.0% Mexico 980,053
American Samoa 24.1% Brazil 897,091
Niue 12.0% Chile 534,754
Kiribati 10.7% Philippines 537,014
Tahiti 7.8% Peru 402,230
Cook Islands 8.3% Argentina 339,929
Marshall Islands 7.0% United Kingdom 180,095
Chile 3.3% Guatemala 196,777
Palau 2.1% Canada 166,442
USA 1.9%
Uruguay 2.5%
New Zealand 2.35%
Guatemala 1.34%
Honduras 1.6%
Bolivia 1.6%
Ecuador 1.2%
Peru 1.4%
Belize 1.0%


(Accurate as of 2006. See 2006 Church Almanac)
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LDS U.S. Statistics (Selected States): State Percent LDS State Number of LDS
Utah 72% Utah 1,720,434
Idaho 27% California 761,763
Wyoming 11% Idaho 376,661
Nevada 7.1% Arizona 346,677
Arizona 6.0% Washington 241,908
Montana 4.6% Texas 243,957
Hawaii 5.1% Oregon 141,482
Oregon 4.0% Nevada 165,498
Washington 3.9% Colorado 126,118
Alaska 4.2% Florida 123,209


(Accurate as of 2006. See 2006 Church Almanac.)
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70% of Mormons worldwide were not born into the faith. (Accurate as of 2006.)
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I love Air America............. esp the lesbian chick whats her name? Rachel something.