His stunning provocative remarks come just a day after Barack Obama called for rejecting religious tests for admission into the USA, and Trump had joined leading Republican presidential candidates in lashing out at the President for not identifying radical Islam as the main threat.
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Donald Trump’s sparked a backlash, not only from Muslims, but from within his own party, after calling for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States.
Obama’s deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes criticised Trump’s call as “totally contrary to our values as Americans” and pointed to the Bill of Rights’ protection of freedom of religion. “I don’t want to bring to bring them back at all”, Trump said. Any of them. The reason is simple: “we can’t identify what their attitude is”, said 75-year-old Charlie Marzka of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Trump told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that banning Muslims is warranted because the U.S.is essentially at war with Muslim extremists who have launched attacks, including last week’s mass shootings in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14.
John Kasich, the governor of OH, said Trump’s proposed ban was an example of “outrageous divisiveness”, and presidential candidate and the always measured Ted Cruz, added, “Well, that is not my policy”, AP reports.
He said: “Donald Trump’s ill informed comments are complete and utter nonsense. @realDonaldTrump, you don’t get it. This makes us less safe”.
“And if they said, ‘yes, ‘ they would not be allowed in the country?”
“You’re being generous by describing it as a proposal”, said White House spokesman Josh Earnest, castigating the fiery leader’s latest outburst as cynical. “I thought long ago that things he said would hurt his prospects, and he continues to go up”. “His “policy” proposals are not serious“.
During a campaign rally on Monday, Mr Trump suggested that closing the internet in some unspecified places will prevent people from connecting with and joining ISIS.
Supporter Erich Schmid, center, from Hilton Head, S.C., waits with other supporters to hear Republic … “The United States is a great nation when we stand together”, he stated. “In the Jewish community, we know all too well what can happen when a particular religious group is singled out for stereotyping and scapegoating”, he said.
(CNN)Donald Trump’s plan to temporarily halt the immigration of Muslims to the U.S.is being met with a unique counterproposal.
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One Muslim-American leader says Trumps comments sound like something the leader of a lynch mob would say. “It has to stop, all these accusations”, he said after prayers at a mosque in the city, as he urged Trump and others to see Muslims as “part of the American mosaic”.
