The poll was taken before he called for that ban on Muslims entering the United States.
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Watch the entirety of their warning to Donald Trump in light of his recent call for banning all Muslims from entering the United States in the video below.
Republicans, many of which say they oppose “big government” and intrusions on their privacy, also overwhelmingly favoured registering Muslims already living in the United States in a government database, another of Mr Trump’s suggestions following the ISIS-inspired attacks in Paris last month that killed 130 people.
USA property mogul Donald Trump gestures during a media event on the sand dunes of the Menie estate, the site for Trump’s proposed golf resort, near Aberdeen, north east Scotland May 27, 2010. We are very proud of our Muslim communities and out belief is if we are going to see off the threat and ideology of Isil we have to work with our Muslim communities, not push them aside or make them feel alienated.
Despite the backlash, Trump’s divisive rhetoric seems to have struck a chord with Republican voters. And Trump is the only one who would come out and say something like this.
Lindsey Graham said his presidential opponent Donald Trump is leading in the polls because almost half of Republican primary voters hate Obama and think he is a Kenyan-born Muslim.
“I think for weeks, you know you and everybody else were just bringing folks to hysterical laughter and all of that”, Clinton told the host. We are blessed to live in a country where Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists can freely worship.
Anonymous has waged many “wars” against other groups.
The good news from the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is that despite a wave of anti-Muslim violence and the growing presence of Islamophobia in American politics, general opinion on Muslims hasn’t shifted much.
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Nine in 10 Republican voters also agreed honesty is an important quality in a presidential candidate, but they were more divided on whether that’s a description that applies to Trump.
