Following the November 13 attacks in Paris, responsibility for which was claimed by the Islamic State group, surveys showed Americans increasingly opposed to accepting refugees from Syria, the predominately Muslim country where IS has a stronghold.
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Egypt’s Dar al-Iftaa, which each year issues tens of thousands of edicts that carry influence but not the force of law, denounced Trump’s latest statement.
Marzka explained that he believes Islam “allows for the killing of people” and said he thinks Muslim culture “is absolutely contrary to our culture”. “And saying we’re not going to let a single Muslim into this country is a risky overreaction”.
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has an idea for stopping ISIS from communicating online.
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) – Donald Trump is rejecting criticism that his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.is un-American and has critics comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
At a Trump rally in Manassas, Virginia last week, several attendees interviewed by the Star expressed openly anti-Muslim sentiments.
In a statement posted on Twitter, Trump said: “Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension. We do not need to resort to that type of activity, nor should we”, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said.
“We are now at war”, he said, adding: “We have a president who doesn’t want to say that”.
“Donald Trump is unhinged”.
“Everyone visiting our country should register and be monitored during their stay as is done in many countries”, said Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon and GOP candidate for president.
But while most of his GOP presidential rivals and the three Republican Party chairmen of early voting states Iowa, New Hampshire and SC decried the proposal, Trump’s base is enthusiastically embracing it.
“Given how far he’s pushed the party, Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, are going to have no problem tying all of the candidates to Donald Trump in one nice little extremist package bow”, said Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist.
At an evening rally in South Carolina, Trump supporters cheered and shouted in support as he read his statement. Nihad Awad, national executive director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, called it “reckless and simply un-American”.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest accused Trump of playing on people’s fears and trying to tap into “a darker side, a darker element” of American society. This is exactly what ISIS wants from Americans: “to turn against each other”.
That this unmitigated boor who has not the slightest respect for the ideals on which America was built – ideals of equality and inclusiveness – is riding high on the opinion polls is a sad comment on the mood in the United States today.
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Trump’s aim is to bolster his position among conservative voters who have kept him atop opinion polls of Republican voters for months, to the point that establishment Republicans fret he could win the nomination and do so poorly in the general election next November that Republicans could not only lose the White House but also control of Congress.
