‘What Am I Going To Do?’

DONALD Trump, front-runner for the USA 2016 Republican presidential nomination, said he has to maintain his tough talk on Muslims, despite the use of his comments in a recruitment video from the Somali extremist group al-Shabab.

Trump dismissed the new video in an interview aired Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation”. “We want to examine it.’ There’s a lot of bad stuff going on”, he continued, referring to ongoing and recent incidents of terrorism or the threat of terrorism”. “I have to say what I have to say”.

Trump’s quotes are bracketed by a recorded speech from Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a prominent English-language al-Qaeda recruiter who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011, in which he had warned that the United States would turn against its Muslims.

The statement was strongly rejected by Trump, who said on ABC’s This Week on December 20: “Knowing the Clintons and knowing Hillary, she made it up”.

The remarks were Mr Trump’s first concerning the video.

An Islamist militant organization, al-Kataib Media Foundation, circulated the video on Twitter Friday, according to SITE. “And he doesn’t want to use the words ‘radical Islam.’ He doesn’t want to use anything having to do with radical and Islam”.

“They really put him down as a ‘degenerate, ‘” Trump said of Bill Clinton.

“Yesterday, America was a land of slavery, segregation, lynching and Ku Klux Klan, and tomorrow, it will be a land of religious discrimination and concentration camps”, Awlaki says in the video, which was filmed before his death. The faction is affiliated with al-Qaeda, although some fighters have recently switched sides to support the “Islamic State”.

“What am I going to do?” he asked.

But many backers of the GOP front-runner who poured into the ice hockey rink here at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum said they were more concerned about Trump restoring the Gulf Coast economy than whether he was being used to recruit terrorists.

Clinton’s campaign subsequently clarified her comments, saying she did not have one specific video in mind, and Trump has since demanded an apology. There’s a problem. We have to find out what is the problem.

Al-Shabab seeks to overthrow the Western-backed Somali government and replace it with its version of Shariah law. Trump said as he opened his remarks.

Trump also said the only reason he is talking about Islam so much on the campaign trail is because President Obama is ignoring the issue.