“They should say right now that they would not support Donald Trump for presidency”. “That is very, very frightening”.
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Trump, though, insisted that he was more like FDR now than any leader since, according to his statement Tuesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Even before Trump’s proposal Monday, several area ministers over the weekend addressed anti-Muslim sentiments and fears rising from the killings last week in California.
“No political party here could get anywhere near what’s been said in the United States, not even with an Olympic-style pole vault”. Nusair is upset and saddened by Trump’s call for an outright ban on all Muslims from entering the U.S. Damac Properties, which is partnering with the Trump Organisation on its golf and property developments in Dubai, and whose CEO Hussain Sajwani is said to be a good friend of Trump’s, is now standing by the organisation calling it “one of the premium golf course operators in the world”. “You side with people in the faith who reject this ideology, which is 99%”, Graham told CNN, before invoking Trump’s campaign slogan – “make America great again”.
The White House and the State Department preceded Cook in condemning Trump’s proposal as contrary to American principles and unconstitutional.
British Prime Minister David Cameron labelled the comments “divisive, unhelpful and simply wrong” and French PM Manuel Valls said they “stoked hatred”.
“Banning groups of people en masse from the US based on their religion would be both morally reprehensible and bad policy”, said Dessert.
And after a closed-door GOP caucus, House Speaker Paul Ryan said: “This is not conservatism. What was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for and, more importantly, it is not what this country stands for”.
It’s nice to fantasize about sending world leaders into space, but we are left with the fact that we actually still do not know what to do with Trump here on Earth.
Mr Trump’s headline-grabbing stance on Muslims came as Ted Cruz topped him in a key Iowa poll and as the first attack ads from rival Jeb Bush’s team hit the airwaves. “They agree with me 100 percent”.
“Anything that tries to bolster, if you will, the ISIL narrative that the United States is somehow at war with Islam is contrary to our values and contrary to our national security”, he said, using another term for ISIS.
Weeks before the latest Trump controversy, the issue of refugees, especially from Syria, had drawn the attention of churches in the region and across the country. “We have in our Bill of Rights respect for the freedom of religion”. The vast majority of Palestinians are also Muslim. She called his idea “laughable”. We just don’t have the ability. 20 miles from Nazareth.
The downside, Dworkin said, is that Trump could be hurting the Republican Party.
At the Islamic Center of Johnson County, the mosque’s secretary, Arif Ahmad, said Trump was showing his ignorance of Islam.
For many television journalists, the Muslim proposal marked a turning point, making them more intent on holding Trump accountable, he said. “All the kiddos have that shirt”. He said he would not support internment camps.
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During an interview with a conservative radio show, former Vice President Dick Cheney denounced Trump’s statements, saying a ban on religion goes against everything we stand for.
