Trump wants mosques under surveillance

“I find it abhorrent that Donald Trump is suggesting that we register people, that haunts back to a time that no one wants to go back to”, Jeb Bush said on CNBC on Friday. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a youthful candidate of Cuban descent is seen as the party’s best chance to defeat former Secretary of State Clinton. Ben Carson, who was tied with Trump in the same poll a month ago, has fallen to third place with 19 percent support, behind Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who earned 21 percent support.

Trump was combative later in the evening when he was pressed on the proposal, repeating “You tell me” when asked how a Muslim database would be different than the registry of Jews in Nazi Germany. “But it’s all about management”.

The Obama administration is assuring governors that refugees who come to the United States in its resettlement program undergo a “rigorous security vetting process”, particularly if they are fleeing from Syria.

“I want surveillance of certain mosques if that’s OK”, Trump was quoted as saying to the crowd at the rally in Birmingham, Alabama. I want mosques surveilled.

Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the response of Muslim-Americans on September 11 was disgust.

But on Sunday, Trump said: “I don’t want to close mosques; I want to surveil mosques”.

“I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down, and I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down”, he said. Not even France is rejecting Syrian refugees, but it seems the United States is too good for even that. “She’s not a strong enough person to be President”, Trump said. On the republican side, though, look who the republican voters trust to handle terrorism, Donald Trump.

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. He said the agency now can only afford to monitor “30 to 60 people”, numbers he did not explain before aides steered him away from reporters. “At a few point you have to ask yourself, is that the kind of country we are?”

Several Republican presidential candidates insisted Syrian refugees pose a potential danger to America and should not be allowed into the country, despite growing criticism within and outside their party for a few of their statements.

Stephanopolous asked Trump, “Are you unequivocally now, ruling out a data base on all Muslims?”

“‘I know because I wrote it, ‘ he said of the council’s reaction, adding that if Mr. Trump had evidence of cheering, he should present it”.

“I agree that there’s no such thing as political correctness when you’re fighting an enemy who wants to destroy you and everything that you have anything to do with”, said Carson, who is second to Trump in many GOP polls.