That’s what Andrew Anglin, publisher of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, had to say in response to Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” .
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Billionaire-turned-politician Trump recently added to an already controversial Presidential campaign by claiming that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”.
A spokeswoman for Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday said Cameron thought Trump’s comments were “divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong”.
We asked the governor: is what Trump said included under the GOP’s big tent?
Still, Fattah, who was born and raised in the Upstate, said Trump’s proposed moratorium on new Muslims entering the US makes her feel unwelcome.
“Donald Trump will be as serious a candidate for president as Donald wants to be and that’s totally within his control”.
“There are probably some constitutional issues there [with Donald Trump’s proposal]”.
At the White House, press secretary Josh Earnest lambasted Mr Trump as a “carnival barker” and called on his rivals to denounce their fellow candidate. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Republicans and Democrats, all condemned Trump’s anti-Muslim remarks. “And more importantly, it’s not what this country stands for”. Carson afterward praised Jordan for its generosity toward the refugees but said none should be brought to the United States.
“I think we need to know that there will always be people who are misinformed and misunderstand about what it is to be of a specific faith”, said Reem Hassaen, who we also spoke to at the Islamic Society of Michiana.
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Kusar is inviting people of all religions to the mosque. “I am not willing to play political games when people’s lives hang in the balance”. “I think right now, in the state that this country is in, it’s just not a good time to bring in any outsiders and whether they be of that nationality or not, it’s just not the time”, said McCrory. And there’s new speculation about Trump’s loyalty to Republicans.
