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You know, the questions Chuck Todd asked on Sunday when Carson was on "Meet the Press" for an interview
Chuck Todd: "Does a president's faith matter? Should your faith matter to voters?"
Carson "It depends what faith it is...."
Chuck Todd: "Do you believe Islam is consistent with the Constitution?"
Carson: "No, I do not. I do not advocate we put a Muslim in charge of this nation...."

Carson wasn't asked the about the circumstances of a "radical Muslim" so the comic is a pretty stupid straw man. There is also a constitutional prohibition against religious test for any candidate for federal office:

United States Constitution Article VI, paragraph 3, and states that:

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

Carson's a jerk about this, no doubt, but the religious test clause has nothing to do with voter preferences.

Chuck Todd: "Do you believe Islam is consistent with the Constitution?"
Carson: "No, I do not.

This is the portion that outs Carson as a raging Islamaphobe who doesn't understand Islam or the US Constitution.

Do you happen to understand why Carson believes this?

No, he doesn't

Ooh ooh, it's the part where the Koran says:

'Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'

Cause ya know, murdering children, that's American!

Oh wait, that's not the Koran that's 1 Samuel 15:3

That is why the terrorists in Beslan school yelled Samuel 15:3, not Allah Akbar.

I didn't hear him explain why. Can you cite me his explanation of what's incompatible with Islam and the constitution?

I mean, tell it to Keith Ellison.

The issue is the belief, misguided or not, that Islam, being all-encompassing, is incompatible with a secular state, especially when we have Sharia issues involved.

I don't agree at all, but the fact that you don't have this understanding is part of the issue with not understanding the broader positions.

Sadly, people often forget that Christians often want to enshrine Their faith in our laws, also...

Also true, but there's much less conflict between the two.