Paul City Council condemns Trump’s anti-Muslim speech, but doesn’t ban him

“The producer says you’re anxious I might say or do something to you during the show”.

He was responding to a proposal from a British lawmaker to prohibit Donald Trump from entering the United Kingdom, an idea that started with a popular petition that gained steam over the last week.

Michael Moore – a prominent American left-wing political activist and documentary filmmaker – has sent Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump a letter chastising him on his recent anti-Muslim statements and his call to ban Muslims from coming to the US.

Employing that old, “some of my very best friends are Muslims” schtick, Trump refused to waver from his racist beliefs throughout the exchange. “What a wuss”, was all I remember thinking as I left the set.

Moore added that Trump is now similarly afraid of Muslims, after proposing a temporary ban on all Muslim immigration to America “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”. Constantly being told that Muslim values don’t equal American values, or that I must be a “moderate” because I haven’t committed a murder, or, more recently, that a strategy for combating terrorism is barring Muslims from entering our country, you begin to wonder yourself if it’s possible to simultaneously be both Muslim and American. “As a Jew, my parents taught me that we must stand up against attacks on all communities”.

Moore has become increasingly vocal about his dislike for the Republican frontrunner; last week, he invited Facebook followers to report Trump for “hate speech” in an effort to have him banned from the social media service. “That boogeyman, in your mind, are all Muslims”. Not just the ones who have killed, but ALL MUSLIMS. “Here we are in 2015 and, like many other angry white guys, you are frightened by a bogeyman out to get you. And not the people who want you leading their country”, the letter stated. Just as we are all Mexican, we are all Catholic and Jewish and white and black and every shade in between.

‘We are all children of God (or nature or whatever you believe in), part of the human family, and nothing you say or do can change that fact one iota. “And everyone else. We are all Muslim”.

“I’m not going to speculate about who’s going to get elected president”, the Kentucky senator said.