Less than a day after GOP Presidential front-runner Donald Trump introduced a proposal to ban Muslims from immigrating to the United States, several Republican candidates and Congressional leaders distanced themselves from the controversy.
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According to Limbaugh, Trump has received more airtime than any other candidate now in the 2016 race for the White House – including the Democratic field, which Limbaugh describes as the “chosen field of the media”.
Real estate mogul and presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s rejection by St. Petersburg, FL, came in response to his call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims” entering the U.S. Trump also lashed out at President Obama for not identifying radical Islam in his national address as the main threat.
Earnest noted first that every president must take an oath to “preserve, protect and defend” the U.S. Constitution, and thus, he said, Trump would not qualify.
But the real-estate mogul said his ideas were no worse than those of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who oversaw the detention of more than 110 000 people in USA government camps after Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He also claimed that thousands of Muslims celebrated in New Jersey on 9/11.
His poll numbers rose largely as a result, until a setback in Iowa yesterday morning.
There is a lot of backlash over Donald Trump’s proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.
“Very pity to say that a person, the candidate of American President, made this such statement, as if he generalised that all Muslims are terrorists”, said Muhyidin Junaidi, Head of Foreign Affairs at the Ulema Council.
“Let me just step back and say that the Trump campaign for months now has had a dustbin of history-like quality to it. From the vacuous sloganeering to the outright lies, to even the fake hair, the whole carnival barker routine that we have seen for some time now”. Condemning Trump’s statement, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said, “It is reckless and simply un-American”.
Jeb Bush, Republican presidential hopeful, tweeted: “Donald Trump is unhinged”.
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“We must enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away through suspicion and hate”, he told the American people. So people of a particular religion may get favorable treatment by the United States, as when Russian Jews sought to leave the Soviet Union. Bernie Sanders said, “We are a weak nation when we allow racism and xenophobia to divide us”.
