“This is shocking rhetoric”.
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On the Democratic side, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton enjoyed a 49-33 percent lead over Sen.
A few rivals for the 2016 Republican nomination also denounced Trump’s comments. He said they will be signed up at different places.
Senator Cruz said in Iowa that the US Constitution “protects religious liberty and I’ve spent the past several decades defending the religious liberty of every American”. “It’s manipulating people’s angst and their fears; that’s not strength, that’s weakness”.
CT Republicans should stand up now and loudly repudiate Donald J. Trump for his despicable endorsement of a mandatory Muslim registration database.
On Thursday, NBC News published a dramatic video purporting to show Donald Trump calling for a “Plan for a Muslim Database”.
When Donald Trump arrives in Birmingham on Saturday, everyone will be eager to hear what he has to say in light of his recent, controversial statements about a Muslim database to track refugees that would come into the country.
Two of Trump’s presidential rivals from the GOP John Kasich the Ohio Governor and Jeb Bush the former Governor of Florida criticized the businessman turned politician over the proposal of a database. What the hell is that? “I mean, how is that at all American?” “We are very, very foolish in this country, and we have a lot of problems, and the biggest problem we have no leader”.
“Trump’s suggestion that we use a database to track Muslims is deeply troubling and reminiscent of darker days in American history when others were singled out for scapegoating”, the ADL said in a statement. Trump added, “You sign them up, but it’s all about management”. “And that’s just wrong – I don’t care about campaigns”, Bush said.
Trump hasn’t yet said whether his database would include only immigrant Muslims, anyone who identifies as one, or just anyone of Middle Eastern origin, but he’s got plenty of time to figure that out before the elections.
Trump was in Iowa Thursday for a televised question-and-answer session hosted by WHO-TV at the Des Moines Area Community College.
“By mainstreaming Islamophobic and unconstitutional policies, Donald Trump and Ben Carson are contributing to an already toxic environment that may be hard to correct once their political ambitions have been satisfied”, said Robert McCaw, the council’s government affairs manager.
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Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who earlier this week compared Syrian refugees to “rabid dogs”, called singling out an individual religion to create a database “a pretty risky precedent”. Thursday in an interview with Yahoo, Trump outlined the “unthinkable” security measures including a national data base he believes will be necessary to monitor America’s Muslims. “First Amendment protects religious liberty”.
