Along with calling for heightened surveillance of USA mosques, Trump said he’d also consider shutting down the houses of worship.
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Sometimes, the Republican candidate’s ideas don’t even surprise people, even is they aren’t too “orthodox”, but now Trump saying that the United States needs to “watch and study” mosques and that he’d at least entertain the idea of closing some in America, according to The Washington Post, shocked a few. “In the old days, meaning a while ago, we had great surveillance going in and around mosques in NY city and I understand our mayor totally cut that out”. He said the U.S. should be going more aggressively after the group’s oil and financing and pressing other countries to intensify their fighting against the radicals.
“The first thing is I’m going to take Obama’s executive order where he said everybody come on in, we’re going to end that”, said Trump.
In the wake of ISIS claiming responsibility for the deadly Paris attacks, Trump has offered his own solutions to curb Islamic extremism.
Donald Trump rallies with crowd of more than 5,000 in Knoxville, TN.
“I mean they’re gonna learn German, they’re gonna learn all these different languages”.
“When you see that, I just kind of (thought), ‘Oh, here we go, you know, with this, ‘ and I was just hoping that it didn’t get out of hand”, said Abdul Rahim Hubbf, of the Portland Rizwan Mosque.
Trump continued, “We have a president hat wants to take hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, of people and move them into our country”. “It would have been the Shootout at the OK Corral, and there would have been death, but it could have been their death”, Trump said.
Earlier in the day, Trump once again said that he was open to closing down certain mosques in the country for terrorism-related concerns.
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Trump appeared to be referring to the NY Police Department’s Demographics Unit, which The Associated Press reported in 2011 was spying on Muslims and mosques around the city with help from the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Instead, Trump called for building a “tremendous safe zone” in Syria where Syrians could live without fear of being bombed.
