Ben Carson likens Islamic terrorists to ‘rabid dogs’ hiding among Syrian refugees

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson compared the need to screen refugees to protecting a child from a rabid dog at an event in Alabama Thursday.

“If there’s a rabid dog running around in your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog”, Carson said during a press conference in Mobile, Ala.

He said it was simply “putting your intellect into motion” to call for a strengthened screening process to weed out potential terrorists before letting more refugees into the country.

Continuing his analogy, Carson said that though you might not “hate all dogs”, he said it it was intellectually sensible to “call the Humane Society” to place them into a safe environment.

“By the same token, we have to have in place screening mechanisms in that allow us to determine who the furious dogs are, quite frankly”, Carson continued.

This would mean that ISIS’ sources of supply and funding would have to be cut off. Carson said the Islamic jihadis are getting money from the oil fields along the eastern Syrian border.

After his recent stumbles on foreign policy and USA geography, Ben Carson is falling back on his medical expertise – sort of.

On Wednesday, the president derided GOP candidates over their rhetoric on Syrian refugees, calling their words offensive and calling for an end to the hateful views. “You’re going to have to be a lot more sophisticated than that now”. His campaign has responded to the resulting criticism by saying that Carson gets daily mid-morning national security briefings and that he’s getting better as the campaign progresses.

“Being responsible for the September 11 attacks, what happened right there really didn’t require a great deal of sophistication because we were not paying attention”, Carson argued.

He added, “You didn’t have to be that great”.

When asked if the Islamic State now is a bigger threat to the US than al Qaeda around the time of the 9/11 attack, Carson did not hesitate, responding in the affirmative.