“Governor, what is your reaction to this whole Muslim thing, by Donald Trump?”.
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White House spokesperson Josh Earnest said Trump’s proposal “disqualifies him from serving as president” and suggested that Republican candidates who stand by their pledge to support Trump if he wins the nomination disqualify themselves as well.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said that was “ridiculous” and added: “The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of NY is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump”.
Trump’s proposed ban would apply to immigrants and visitors alike, a sweeping prohibition affecting all adherents of a religion practiced by more than a billion people worldwide.
Trump wants to ban Muslims from coming into the US after last week’s ISIS-inspired attack in California, but even GOP leaders are rejecting his comments.
Clinton said at a campaign event in New Hampshire that Trump’s Muslim ban was a “shameless and risky idea” which played right into the hands of extremists. Fourteen people were killed and 21 wounded.
If history is any guide, predicting who or what might be helped and hurt by incendiary statements from Donald Trump may be folly.
“We are their target as much as anyone else is their target”.
The House speaker, Republican Paul Ryan, says Mr Trump’s remarks violate the Constitution and the principles of Republican conservativism. Trump’s rhetoric, he said, is harmful to the country. And yet, Trump tops the polls now and has for months. He said that should be a responsibility that ranks higher on the list than the responsibility of humanitarian gestures towards people elsewhere. “And losing that would be losing the essence of who we are”, Sergie Attar said.
“I would just make the larger point that anything that creates tensions and creates the notion that the U.S.is at odds with the Muslim faith and Islam would be counterproductive to our efforts right now” against ISIS, he said. “It’s going to get worse and worse”.
There were numerous instances of troops closing ranks with Muslims in their units and telling them “we’ve got your back”, Cook said.
The British prime minister is calling it: “quite simply wrong”.
The outcry was swift as soon as Mr Trump said in a statement on Monday night that Muslims nursed a “hatred” towards America and should be banned “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”.
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The Executive Director of the Council on American and Islamic Relations, Nihad Awad said his remarks have echoes of Nazi Germany.
