With unsafe rhetoric on Muslims, has Trump overplayed his hand?

You didn’t expect Donald Trump, the leader for the GOP presidential nomination, to stay on the sidelines, did you? The candidate did not take a stance but raised concerns about Muslims in the United States. “The First Amendment protects religious liberties for every American”, Cruz said. Here’s the thing, though: The nanosecond Trump sees a poll that he likes, or a piece of television commentary that he doesn’t, he lets everyone know about it instantly.

“We will not destroy ISIS (the Islamic State) by undermining the Constitution and our religious freedoms”, Sanders said.

It was an attempt to clarify where he stands amid an uproar over last week’s seeming endorsement of a mandatory registry for Muslims living in the U.S.

“[It could be] a mosque, or any church or any organization or any school or any press corps where there was a lot of radicalization and things that were anti-American”, he said in Columbia, S.C., according to The Associated Press.

A number of Republican presidential candidates have said that Syrian refugees should be barred from entering the United States because the Obama administration can not determine whether they are aligned with the Islamic State.

Meanwhile, Florida senator Marco Rubio said the idea is “unnecessary” and not something Americans would support. And a Texas politician likened refugees to rattlesnakes. Betty Phelps said it would not be much different than existing databases.

Trump was accused of dooming the fledgling U.S. Football League in 1984 when he insisted it go head to head with the NFL with a fall game schedule.

This week, Trump stated that he is in favor of creating a database of Muslims and making them carry identification marking them as such.

While Trump’s off the cuff speech was light on specific policy proposals, it was dominated by tough talk and shots at everyone from the president to Hillary Clinton to the “Amazing Race”, a “terrible” show that beat out his “The Apprentice” for an Emmy Award.

Speaking at campaign events in Tennessee on Friday, Clinton said the rhetoric from Republican candidates on Muslim refugees is “inflammatory”. “They keep applying standard, ordinary, everyday tactics on hit pieces to Donald Trump, and all that happens as a result is that Trump increases his support”, Limbaugh said Friday. In September, actress Regina King won her first Emmy for her sympathetic portrayal of a Muslim woman in ABC’s “American Crime”. “At a few point you have to ask yourself, is that the kind of country we are?”

Trump boasted of the large crowds that hear him speak at rallies, including the one in Birmingham, where a few in attendance wore the front-runner’s trademark red “Make America Great Again” hat.

“I think those who imagine we should suspend the arrival of any Syrians into this country or any Muslim into this country is really over the top”, Hartke said.