Herman Cain Blasts Tenn. Mosque and Shariah Law; CAIR demands apology

Courageous or desperate, Herman Cain continues to say things that other GOP presidential hopefuls wont.

On Fox News Sunday, the Atlanta businessman blasted a Murfreesboro, Tenn., mosque as a beachhead for Shariah law and said residents should be able to ban mosques in their communities.

"It's not just a mosque for religious purposes. This is what the people are objecting to," he said.

Asked whether any community should be able to prohibit a mosque, Cain said they should.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on Cain to apologize for his latest remarks.

CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper, noting Cains previous pledge to bar Muslims from his Cabinet, called Cains latest remarks a "sign of desperation."

"It's incumbent on reasonable people within the Republican Party to come out strongly and repudiate these kinds of un-American unconstitutional views," Hooper said.

The Southern Baptist Convention also weighed in -- on CAIR's side -- urging Cain to re-read the First Amendment. Read the SBC's release here.