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video with above link^ Herman Cain: I was relieved when I found out my cancer physician -- Dr. Abdallah -- was a Christian
The GOP front-runner was criticized this spring when he said he wouldn't feel 'comfortable' appointing Muslims to Cabinet should he be elected President
BY Aliyah Shahid
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, November 22 2011, 10:17 AM
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was diagnosed in 2006 with Stage IV colon cancer. He is cancer-free today.
Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was diagnosed in 2006 with Stage IV colon cancer. He is cancer-free today.
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Herman Cain prefers a G-d-fearing doctor... apparently, so long as that G-d is not called Allah.
The Republican presidential candidate -- who has come under the microscope for remarks about Muslims before -- shared a story with a crowd at a Christian-themed amusement park about a time several years ago when he was being treated for colon cancer.
One physician was named Dr. Abdallah, which he thought "sounded too foreign."
"I said to his physician assistant, I said ‘That sounds foreign’ -- not that I had anything against foreign doctors -- but it sounded too foreign," the Republican presidential candidate told the audience at Orlando's Holy Land Experience over the weekend.
But the assistant quickly calmed his fears, he said, as first reported by Yahoo News.
She told the pizza business magnate and devout Baptist that Dr. Abdallah was from Lebanon.
“’Oh Lebanon!’” Cain said. “My mind immediately started thinking, wait a minute, maybe his religious persuasion is different than mine. She could see the look on my face and she said, 'Don't worry, Mr. Cain, he's a Christian from Lebanon.’"
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The GOP front-runner was criticized this spring when he said he wouldn't feel "comfortable" appointing Muslims to Cabinet should he be elected President. He later backtracked, insisting he was talking about extremists.
Cain, 66, has previously discussed his battle against Stage IV colon cancer on the campaign trail. He was diagnosed in 2006 and now says he's cancer free.
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