At the same time, the real estate tycoon seemed to stand by his proposed ban on all Muslim immigration into the U.S.
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Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump doubled down in Thursday’s GOP debate on his contention that Muslims hate the United States and mean the country harm. “There’s something there that – there’s a tremendous hatred there”.
In addition to those extreme proposals, Trump made headlines with his willingness to not only initiate policies that are considered torture, such as waterboarding, but expand those policies. “He should apologize to the Muslims serving in our nation’s armed forces, to the Muslim doctors who provide health care to millions of Americans, to the Muslim law enforcement officers who keep communities safe, to the Muslim women targeted by hate because of their attire, and to the Muslim students who face bullying because of their faith”.
Of the almost 319 million people who live in the US, about 3 million are Muslim.
“I’ll work on it with the generals. I mean a lot of them”, Trump replied to applause. His message comes in the wake of a deadly mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, by suspected ISIS sympathizers and the day after President Barack Obama asked the country not to “turn against one another” out of fear.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton once explained she avoids the term because it “sounds like we are declaring war against a religion”.
“It’s very hard to separate, because you don’t know who’s who”, he told Cooper. “Because you don’t know who’s who”.
When Cooper asked if hate was “in Islam itself”, Trump said: “You’re going to have to figure that out, OK?”
Were these people who supposedly hated the USA all Muslim?
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CAIR claims that the rhetoric of Trump and other Republican officials is at least partially to blame for a spike in anti-Muslim incidents across this country in recent months.
