Many prominent Muslims in the USA, including religious scholar Reza Aslan, Al Jazeera America host Ali Velshi and Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, have also condemned Trump for his bigoted remarks.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, told reporters Tuesday that “this is not conservatism”.
A spokeswoman for British Prime Minister David Cameron said Mr Trump’s comments were “divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong”. Muslims in the United States and around the world denounced it as unconstitutional or offensive.
Trump warned the recent attack in San Bernardino as well as those of Paris, could happen again if no action is taken.
On ABC’s “Good Morning America”, Trump said his plan is “no different” from Franklin D. Roosevelt rounding up more than 110,000 Japanese people in the usa after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The AP reported that Trump’s visit to Jordan, an overwhelmingly Muslim country, would take place during his trip to Israel, which he previously disclosed during an interview last week.
“I want people in Muslim communities across this country to know that the president and I, members of this administration-and obviously a number of Republicans and Democrats-do not believe this, do not feel the way Mr. Trump feels”, he told MSNBC.
An overflow crowed fills the hangar deck of the USS Yorktown as Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, speaks during a rally coinciding with Pearl Harbor Day at Patriots Point aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., Monday, Dec. 7, 2015.
Jeb Bush called Donald Trump one of “the blow-hards” for rhetoric that he says hurts efforts to defeat Islamic terrorists. Experts on immigration law and policy expressed shock at the proposal yesterday afternoon.
“Crime has been falling steadily both in London and in NY – and the only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of NY is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump”, Johnson said.
“It’s grossly irresponsible, given what the aim of the extremists is, to play into their hands at the expense of those who themselves – the vast majority of ordinary Muslims – would be viewed as eligible targets by these extremist groups”, he said. They added that in the case of Trump, his talk offers “something far worse”.
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Coming up, Trump discusses his latest pronouncement with Barbara Walters.
