Donald Trump on Obama’s mosque visit: ‘Maybe he feels comfortable there’

“And of course recently we’ve heard inexcusable political rhetoric against Muslim Americans that has no place in our country”.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States after a California couple who killed 14 people last December were described by authorities as radicalized Muslims inspired by Islamic State militants. “Thank you for serving your community and for helping us keep united as one American family”.

The President yesterday sought to correct what he called a “hugely distorted impression” of Muslim Americans as he made his first visit to a U.S. mosque since being elected. A recent poll found that 29% of Americans question whether Obama is in fact a Christian while another 13% said they doubt he was born in the United States. The mosque he stood in has been a part of Baltimore for more than 50 years. Trump also suggested establishing a database to track Muslims in America.

Later on during his first presidential visit to a mosque, Obama addressed his concern that Muslim families are ostensibly being bullied by Americans concerned about the increased risk of radical Islamic terrorism at home and overseas.

As a result of the erroneous image, Muslim women wearing hijab around the country suffer, Obama said, exemplifying Sabah Mukhtar, a biology student from the University of Maryland, who gave a passionate speech to the audience before the USA president appeared on stage.

“An attack on one faith is an attack on all our faiths”, Obama said.

The US president denounced the “extremist elements” who twist Islamic text into violent ideology.

He noted that founding father Thomas Jefferson specifically mentioned Muslims when he spoke about the American right to freedom of religion.

Fox News also quotes Zuhdi Jasser, of the American islamic Forum for Democracy, who argues that particular mosque isn’t the best representative of tolerance in the faith community.

He said: “So I was not the first”. “No, it’s true. Look it up”.

“When you have a heated political climate, someone at his level needs to step up and say, “This can not go on”, said Mohamud Noor, executive director of the Confederation of the Somali Community”.