“I’d knock out the capital, and I’d knock it out big and strong”, he said. “Working with the Muslim community, not driving them away, not vilifying them, not driving them into the shadows is absolutely critical to our national security efforts”. “So far, it looks like the restrictionist side is winning-and threatening the Party’s future the process”.
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Trump’s campaign said in a statement such a ban should stand “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”. Muslims in the United States and around the world denounced it as unconstitutional, offensive or both. He twice cited the election of Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana as the House majority whip, noting Scalise’s reported comments describing himself “David Duke without the baggage”, a comparison to the former Ku Klux Klansman and white supremacist. The speaker said he doesn’t normally comment on the presidential race but was making an exception. Terrorist group the Islamic State, or ISIS, took credit for the Paris incident, while a Muslim couple that authorities say appeared to have ties to ISIS carried out the California massacre.
The front page of the Philadelphia Daily News pictured Trump holding his right hand out as if in a Nazi salute with the headline “The New Furor”.
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pressed Trump to elaborate.
And Trump’s proposal reflects fear and insecurity after attacks in California and in Paris, where shootings and suicide bombings killed 130 people last month, rattled the world.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Trump’s rhetoric risked inflaming tensions in the Middle East, playing into the recruiting strategy of Islamic State militants, who have framed their battle as a war between Islam and the West.
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. The current Republican front-runner announced his plan to cheers and applause at a Monday evening rally in SC.
“Until we [do]… our country can not be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad”.
At the rally he warned that without drastic action, “it’s going to get worse and worse, you’re going to have more World Trade Centers”.
Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the American Constitution Society, said Tuesday that Trump’s proposed ban would be illegal, exceptionally hard to implement and damaging to national security.
“As he says, we have to find out who they are and why they are here”, he said.
Following Donald Trump’s proposal for a shutdown of Muslim immigration to the USA, many have been quick to denounce his comments, calling them everything from “bigoted” to “racist” to down right “fascist”.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s GOP primary opponents, criticized Trump’s tweet, saying an independent campaign would cement a Hillary Clinton victory.
Cruz said he did not support the proposal to bar Muslims from entering the country, but stopped short of further condemnation.
Lynch’s comments, made on Monday hours before Donald Trump urged an entry ban, point up the stark contrast between the administration’s policy of engaging with Muslims and the billionaire mogul’s controversial stance.
Republicans, Democrats, Muslim leaders, the United Nations and foreign leaders criticised the call as unsafe and divisive. “And it is un-American”, said Jennifer Horn, chairwoman of the Republican Party of New Hampshire.
“If they are so cowed by Mr. Trump and his supporters that they’re not willing to stand by the values enshrined in the Constitution, then they have no business serving as president of the United States themselves”, Earnest said.
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“I will continue to visit the United States whenever possible because I know that America is a great country in which there is no place for such racist opinions”.
