Trump’s Muslim remarks overshadows Newton stop

Trump’s comments were the latest and perhaps the most extreme contribution to what is an already sharply charged debate over whether the USA should accept Muslim refugees from Syria and Iraq in the wake of the Paris attacks last Friday.

The remarks, which were made public on Thursday night, took hours to penetrate over social media.

Carson compared blocking potential terrorists posing as Syrian refugees from entering the U.S.to handling a rabid dog. “And that’s just wrong – I don’t care about campaigns”, Bush said.

Later Thursday, at an event in Newton, Iowa, a reporter asked Trump to expand on his data base remarks.

The controversy began Thursday morning when Trump, who also said this week that he would consider shutting down mosques, told Yahoo News that “we’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely” when asked about a national database for Muslims.

The Republican front-runner’s attack on the president came after Obama had slammed Republicans’ calls to stop admitting any Syrian refugees into the United States as “offensive”, “political posturing” and a “potent recruitment tool” for ISIS.

Taufique says they are just part of a larger problem that is hurting, not helping America moving forward. Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Trump was trying to “divide people”. “That’s not strength. That’s weakness”.

“I never responded to that question, Sara”, Trump said.

Marci Hamilton, a Yeshiva University legal expert on religious liberty, said requiring Muslims to register appears to be a clear violation of the Constitution’s protection of religious freedom.

Trump later said he “didn’t suggest a database” and that it was the reporter’s idea. “In fact, I find it abhorrent that Donald Trump is suggesting that we register people”.

He added, “We must defeat Islamic terrorism & have surveillance, including a watch list, to protect America”.

“It should be denounced by all seeking to lead this country”, she wrote on Twitter.

I wonder if Trump supporters will start calling Cruz a RINO.

Side by side images of Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson. No, I’m talking about the likes of Donald J. Trump, who has been advocating a few truly frightening measures in one-upping his rivals for the title of Most Yuge Bigot.

“We’re fighting against people who want to force you to bow”, Graham said in New Hampshire.

Asked if there was a difference between his idea and the Nazi practice of making Jews register their religious identity in Germany during World War II, Trump repeatedly said, “You tell me”.

In an interview with InsideSources earlier this week, McCaw said the Republican Party’s relationship with American Muslims has been transformed since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It is imperative for presidential candidates to reach out to mosques in key electoral states if they want to have any chance of winning the White House next year.

The extent of the issue is a worrying one and you can tell that when both Democrats and Republicans are not in agreement with this sort of policy.

If you clip that quote at “they have to be”, as many outlets including the NY Times and Associated Press did, it reads as though there is no question about what Trump was saying: They have to be in the database.