The Wisconsin Republican said many Muslims serve the country in the military and work in Congress, “the vast, vast, vast majority of whom are peaceful, who believe in pluralism, freedom, democracy, individual rights”.
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Trump’s proposed ban would apply to immigrants and visitors alike. “He refuses to say it, he can’t say it. There’s something going on, I don’t know what it is”.
“It’s until the country’s representatives can figure out what’s going on”, he said.
“No, I think it’s something that has to be done”, Trump said.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump prepares to speak at the Republican Jewish Coalition Presidential Forum in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC, USA, 03 December 2015.
Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Armanatha Nasir said his government would not comment on election campaigns in other countries, while adding that his country had made known its position on terrorism.
AJC Associate Executive Director for Policy Jason Isaacson stated, “As Americans, who just observed a holiday remembering Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in Europe to found a new home on these shores, we find Mr. Trump’s call abhorrent and wrong”.
“We have no choice but to do this”, the candidate seeking the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential race told ABC.
“I am hereby barring Donald Trump from entering St. Petersburg until we fully understand the risky threat posed by all Trumps”, Kriseman tweeted around 7 p.m. That tweet has since earned more than 8,600 likes and has been retweeted more than 7,400 times.
Trump, who holds a wide lead in Republican polls, had previously proposed a ban only on Syrian refugees, but he had regularly questioned the loyalties of American Muslims.
GOP candidate Jeb Bush is calling Trump “unhinged”. “His policy are not serious”.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Ohio) took the rare step of admonishing Trump’s rhetoric during a news conference Tuesday to say it is “not what this party stands for”. In various interviews, Trump said he would exempt Muslim world leaders and the Muslim troops in the US armed forces.
Critics have said his plan rejects American values by singling out people exclusively based on their religion.
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Trump in his news release alluded to the massacre in San Bernardino, California, last week of 14 people by a couple apparently radicalized by the Islamic State terrorist group. The United States has economic ties with Islamic countries and there are millions of Muslim people in America.
