The US billionaires’ scathing attacks against Muslims created an uproar worldwide with world leaders, artists, athletes and businessmen condemning his rhetoric. “Yet to receive him without condemning his recent prejudicial remarks about Muslims would have been unconscionable for the Jewish state and its 20 percent Muslim minority”, said Oren, who now serves in Netanyahu’s government as a lawmaker for the Kulanu party.
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ONE OF the world’s most famous Muslims has condemned Donald Trump’s call to ban followers of the Islam faith from entering the US.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said they rendered him “unfit to hold the office of the president of the United States”.
One of the Middle East’s largest retail companies has suspended the sales of products by US Republican candidate Donald Trump in response to his calls to ban all Muslims from entering America.
In a statement, the three-time heavyweight boxing world champion said: “I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world”.
“A new poll indicates that 68% of my supporters would vote for me if I departed the GOP (Republicans) and ran as an independent”, Mr Trump said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
While discussing Trump’s comments about closing American mosques with ties to radical Islamic terror, Lee said, “That’s like the Nazis”. “It’s completely outrageous. There are a lot of Muslims in this country who have pledged to be an American, that are paying their taxes, and are lawabiding citizens”.
“What sport is he talking about, and who?” the candidate tweeted the evening before publicly advocating a ban on Muslim immigration.
India’s Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar likened the explosive potential of Trump’s comments to “a nuclear bomb”.
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“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”, the real estate mogul said in Monday’s campaign release, per CNN. And a Fox News poll of South Carolina Republicans found Trump gaining support in the days after announcing the proposal.
