He says they have “alienated many from learning about Islam”.
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A government official, however, confirmed that a meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump would take place on December 28 after being set two weeks ago.
On ABC’s Good Morning America, correspondent Matt Gutman cited the terror-friendly Council on American-Islamic Relations to credit Trump’s comments with a “spike in anti-Muslim incidents” in the United States.
“Trump’s fellow candidates might try to distance themselves from him – but when it comes to hateful rhetoric, it’s hard to tell the difference between the Republicans running for president”, the website states.
Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday that Mr Trump’s comments were “divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong”.
Today, two of America’s greatest sports heroes-Muslim or otherwise-clapped back.
In the past, people have been banned from entering the United Kingdom for fostering hatred that might provoke intercommunity violence.
The petition against Mr Trump coming to the United Kingdom says: “If [we] is to continue applying the “unacceptable behaviour” criteria to those who wish to enter its borders, it must be fairly applied to the rich as well as poor, and the weak as well as the powerful”.
Trump first brought up the trip to Israel last week at a campaign rally in Manassas, Virginia.
Thirty-three percent of voters said they were less likely to back Trump after the plan, while 44 percent reported the proposal has no impact on their vote.
London’s Metropolitan Police took the rare step of criticising Mr Trump.
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Robert Gunnell, a spokesperson for Ali, said later the statement “was not a direct response to Donald Trump”. His daughter Ivanka, executive vice president of development and acquisitions for his Trump Organization, told Hotelier Middle East in May that the company was looking at “many very compelling deals” in the region.
