China criticises Trump’s Muslim ban comments

Asked by reporters on Wednesday whether she would consider banning Trump, Home Secretary Theresa May merely said it was important for politicians to ensure “cohesion among communities rather than division”.

Elected officials in the US have suggested banning Trump from their cities, too.

The petition to bar the US Republican presidential candidate went live on Parliament’s e-petition website on Tuesday, and by 1.45pm on Wednesday had already garnered 152,000 signatures.

“Somebody in this country has to say what’s right”, Mr Trump said in an interview.

Those are just a few choice words Muslim youths across metro Detroit had for Donald Trump after his latest rhetoric Monday called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”.

A spokesperson for U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said the premier “completely disagrees” with Trump and thinks “his views are wrong”, while London Mayor Boris Johnson called the comments “complete and utter nonsense”, according to the BBC.

“What he’s saying is no different than the situation during World War II, when we put the Japanese in camps”, Baldasaro said.

That was the four-word rebuttal Donald Trump national spokeswoman Katrina Pierson shot back at conservative pundit S.E. Cupp while defending the real estate mogul’s controversial proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.

Trump called for blocking Muslims- including would-be immigrants, students, tourists and other visitors- from entering the country following last week’s California shooting spree by a Muslim couple who authorities said had been radicalised. “These guys who are carrying out these barbaric acts are not a representation of Islam at all”.

“Anybody who’s going to be coming to our country, we need to know why they’re coming”, he said. But he said it would be wrong to “ban presidential candidates”.

“But now Donald Trump, the frontrunner of a major political party, has basically given them permission to shed their shame and say these things out loud”.

“We need to aggressively take on radical Islamic terrorism but not at the expense of our American values”, Priebus told the Washington Examiner.