Abdul Disavows Muslim Brotherhood, Discusses Faith and Allegiance

Abdul, will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?

What's your name?

Abdul.

No, what's your name?

Simple question.

Simple question.

Simple question.

No, no, no, what's your name?

Simple question.

No, your friend's got the mic here.

But you answer your-

Hey

... I- I'm asking you a simple question.

You give me your name, I'll answer the question.

Okay. Tommy.

Hi, Tommy. How are you?

I'm great.

Are you? Do you know what

the Constitution of the

United States is?

I have one simple question.

No.

Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?

Sure, yeah, absolutely.

But I wanna, I wanna ask to the

question that you're

asking, why are you asking the question?

Well, because they're a terrorist group.

Okay. No, no, but what are you implying?

The, the, do you assume that I wouldn't?

Yes.

Why not?

Because I have not heard you disavow them yet.

Have you disavowed them? I haven't heard you disavow them yet.

I disavow them.

Do you? Great. But here's the thing about it.

You're asking the

question because implicitly you assume that I'll

have dual loyalties,

right?

You assume that

somehow I wouldn't disavow,

or that I'll have some higher

order allegiance than to the Constitution,

correct? Tommy, is that what you imply?

Yes.

Why would you think that about me?

Because I have not heard you disavow them yet.

No, no, no, no. Why would you actually think

that about me?

Because I have not heard you disavow them yet.

But I just did. But why would you actually think that?

Why would you...

Why- have you asked

everybody in your life

if they disavow them?

I have not.

So why are you asking me?

Because I have not heard you disavow them yet.

No, no, no. Answer the question, Tommy.

Everybody knows the answer to it.

Answer the question.

All right. So let me just tell you, let me just tell you,

I'm gonna swear an

oath to the Constitution of the United States,

and that constitution guarantees us all-

-the right to practice whatever faith we want or no, no faith at all.

This is not the first time

people have asked those kinds of

questions, because...

Do you know who John F. Kennedy is?

Do you know who that is, Tommy?

I do.

All right. Uh, do you know

what he was asked as the first possible

Catholic president of the

United States? What did they ask him?

You don't remember? You should read history.

Tommy, when he ran for president,

he was asked whether or not

he was going to have allegiance to the Pope

at the Vatican, because of course, he's Catholic,

and his answer famously

was that he was not

running to be a Catholic

president. He was running to be president

and happened to be Catholic.

I'm not running

to be a Muslim senator.

I'm running for U.S. Senate

and happen to be Muslim.