He’s the individual that should have allayed the fears about the good Muslim men and women and children in this country. Some of Trump’s critics are better at being self-righteous than they are at being self-aware.
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The Republican establishment is now all upset with Trump, but he is simply the revenge of a Republican base that took its leaders’ pandering – on Islam and a host of other issues – seriously. The NBC/WSJ poll showed only a narrow plurality of Republicans supporting such a ban, and when that poll drilled down to likely voters, it became a virtual tie at 38/39, not far off from the same level of support Trump now gets in primary polling.
This is the same Hillary Clinton who, as a presidential candidate in 2008, tolerated and enabled a xenophobic whisper campaign by surrogates and associates who suggested that Obama was a foreign-born Muslim.
“We are grateful to politicians from both parties, Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, and also to President Obama, and everybody else who is speaking out against these other politicians who are using their notoriety and their fame to discriminate and make very hateful statements”, Port Huron lawyer Ambereen Ahmed said. She only expressed “regret” that some were offended.
In the past 15 years of interfaith initiatives, I have learned that the majority of Muslim-Americans are peaceful, purposeful and patriotic. About this, we have heard little from elected officials in general – and practically nothing from Republicans. “We don’t feel that’s the right thing to do”, he said.
Trump certainly does not think so.
Mr Trump’s proposal is reprehensible, and it is part of a growing trend of Islamophobia that is making life hard for the three million Muslims in the US.
“As offended as I was as a Navy veteran, the imam and CAIR ended up pathologically alienating the Muslims in that audience from an American heritage”. I don’t think he has ever attended a prayer service that is why he was talking about shutting down a Mosque.
That’s what Americans need right now. Fox talk show host Andrea Tantaros described Islam as a problem: “You can’t solve it with a dialogue. Most people don’t know anything about what real Muslims do and what their faith is all about”, Khalil said.
Obama also reassured American Muslims that they are all “part of the same American family”. “You have to deny the bad guys the easiest pool for recruitment”.
“Key to the uniqueness of the American experience is the timeless concept of “freedom of religion” in which all should be allowed to worship God according to their faith traditions free from intimidation, harassment or persecution”.
In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim group has embarked on an worldwide effort to repudiate the jihadist teachings and ideology of the Islamic State. “What was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for and, more importantly, is not what this country stands for”.
Like why in the world would the State Department give a fiancee visa to Tashfeen Malik, the female terrorist born in Pakistan?
Applicants for entry into the United States must be subjected to an investigation that gets all the way to the bottom of such questions, even in the case of refugees. It’s a lazy approach that would hurt the United States as well as potential immigrants.
Given what’s just happened in Paris and San Bernardino, how can we not wonder how many 9-ll hijackers, Nidal Malik Hasans, Tsarnaev brothers, Sayed Rezwan Farooks, and Tashfeen Maliks are among us, contemplating killing us because…well…we don’t really understand why. And how many more terrorists are already here on US soil, waiting to carry out additional attacks?
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No, no, nothing to see here. At first it was touted by the media as a Trump proposal for a database of all Muslims, including citizens and legal residents, which would be constitutionally problematic, if not outright offensive.
