Muslims in Pakistan and Indonesia also denounced the plan.
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“There’s no problem. I’m just doing the right thing”, he told CNN.
In a rambling, 50-minute speech aboard the USS Yorktown later Monday, Trump read part of his statement aloud, hardening the tone and saying the halt on Muslims entering the country should remain in place “until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on”.
And he said what he was proposing is “no different” to President Franklin Roosevelt’s wartime policy of putting Japanese-Americans in U.S. internment camps. “If you look at what he was doing, it was far worse”.
His statement received a great backlash, from non-Muslims as well as Americans of the Muslim faith, who condemned his statement as racist rhetoric. “You know that”, Cuomo said.
“I don’t want to bring… them back at all”, Trump said on ABC. They’re petrified. The police refuse to go in there.
“To say that all Muslims are potentially terrorists and unsafe – where does that take us? We have to be very smart and very vigilant”.
The idea announced by Trump drew swift rebukes, some from overseas.
Monday night, Donald Trump was in Charleston where he told thousands of supporters on the U.S.S. Yorktown about his new suggestion to ban all Muslims.
Next, Trump will be suggesting that we remove all Muslim Americans from the country in the same way he wants to remove all illegal immigrants.
Many in attendance hung on Trump’s every word and supported the republican presidential frontrunner throughout the evening with loud cheers and “Trump, Trump, Trump!” chants.
The Republican presidential front-runner then listed several terror attacks – including the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks and last week’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, which was linked to the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS. “And more importantly, it’s not what this country stands for”.
Donald Trump has called for the internet to be turned off so that children can no longer use it.
GOP Chairman Reince Priebus said in an interview Tuesday with the Washington Examiner that he disagrees with Trump’s proposal – the first time the party’s chief has publicly criticized a Trump proposal.
“It is irresponsible to do this and contrary to our national security efforts”, Johnson, who earlier had declined to comment on the Republican presidential candidate’s proposal, told MSNBC in an interview.
It is un-Republican. It is unconstitutional. “And it is un-American”, said Jennifer Horn, chairwoman of the Republican Party of New Hampshire.
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The Wisconsin Republican said many Muslims serve the country in the military and work in Congress, “the vast, vast, vast majority of whom are peaceful, who believe in pluralism, freedom, democracy, individual rights”.
