Tahir Ashrafi, the head of the Ulema Council, Pakistan’s biggest council of Muslim clerics, said Trump’s comments promoted violence. The front page of The Philadelphia Daily News featured a photo of Trump holding his right hand out as if in a Nazi salute with the headline “The New Furor”.
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“Donald Trump is Hillary Clinton’s Christmas gift wrapped up under a tree”, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said on Twitter.
The implied threat comes as a wide swath of Republicans, state-party chairs, and others have criticized his new proposal to suspend all Muslim travel to the U.S., including immigrants and tourists.
Nevertheless, Trump didn’t back away from his proposal in a campaign rally in SC on Monday night, and again in interviews Tuesday morning with ABC News, CNN and MSNBC.
The GOP leaders should say “right now” that they would not support Trump for president, said Earnest, adding that any Republican who harbors too much fear of the party’s base to make such a statement also should not be able to serve as president.
The real-estate mogul made the announcement in the aftermath of last week’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, and last month’s terrorist attack in Paris, France.
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 United States government camps after Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. “The people in my party fully understand that”.
Guy Martin of Elmira says, “I don’t agree with not allowing any Muslims in the country but i do think that something has to be done”. “If they are so cowed by Mr. Trump and his supporters that they are not willing to stand by the values enshrined in the Constitution, then they have no business serving as president of the United States themselves”. “His Islamophobia doesn’t reflect our nation’s values-it goes far enough to damage our country’s reputation and could even threaten our national security”.
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. Carson afterward praised Jordan for its generosity toward the refugees but said none should be brought to the United States.
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President Barack Obama’s spokesman, Josh Earnest, said Mr Trump was a “carnival barker” with “fake hair” whose campaign has a “dustbin of history” quality.
