Republican candidates disavow Trump’s call for requiring Muslims in USA to

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton on Friday condemned Donald Trump’s comments that Muslims in America should be registered in a data base. Asked how that differed from efforts last century to track Jews in Nazi Germany, he said: “You tell me”.

“There should be a lot of systems, beyond database, we should have a lot of systems, and today you can do it”, Trump replied.

He added, “We must defeat Islamic terrorism & have surveillance, including a watch list, to protect America”. “And that’s just wrong – I don’t care about campaigns”, Bush said. He added that it was only manipulating the fears and angst of the people, which is not strength by weakness.

Governor Kasich said requiring people to register with the federal government due to their religion “strikes against all that we have believed in our nation’s history”.

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“No, I never – I never responded to that question”, Trump said.

That lack of a definitive stand has opened Trump up to criticism from not only Democrats, but fellow Republican candidates, as well as both Muslim and Jewish groups.

The campaign trail comments come amid a debate on Capitol Hill about refugees from the Middle East.

In its statement, the ADL also slammed other candidates’ recent remarks on Syrian refugees, saying such comments “cross[ed] the line into scapegoating”.

“They have to be”, he said in video that was posted on MSNBC.

The Anti-Defamation League called Donald Trump’s claim that he would create a database to track all American Muslims if he were elected president “deeply troubling”. Ted Cruz, who has largely avoided criticizing Trump throughout the 2016 campaign, said that while he was a fan of the billionaire businessman, “I’m not a fan of government registries of American citizens”.

“We have two competing sets of pessimism in this country in the political realm”, Bush said.

I wonder if Trump supporters will start calling Cruz a RINO. The group also chided Trump’s closest GOP challenger, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who on Thursday addressed the influx of Syrian refugees in the terms of a “rabid dog running around your neighborhood”, according to The Wall Street Journal.

“I call it the Trojan horse”, he said.

Trump hasn’t yet said whether his database would include only immigrant Muslims, anyone who identifies as one, or just anyone of Middle Eastern origin, but he’s got plenty of time to figure that out before the elections.

Asked whether he agrees with Trump’s assertion that mosques should be closed, Senator Marco Rubio said: “It’s not about closing down mosques”.