Trump calls for US Muslim database

Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, at a Tennessee rally Friday evening, said, “Mr. Trump has attacked Mexican immigrants, he’s attacked women and now he’s attacking Muslim Americans”.

Donald Trump says he wants a database, watch lists and unspecified other “checks and balances” to track Muslims in the U.S.

Trump and other GOP candidates signed a pledge stating that they will not run as independents and that they will support the eventual Republican nominee. He did not expound on just how an administration would determine what constitutes “radicalization” or “anti-American”.

Trump has increasingly confronted Carson in recent weeks, highlighting media reports about his struggles to grasp foreign policy and difficulty documenting his stories of a violent youth. He said the agency now can only afford to monitor “30 to 60 people”, numbers he did not explain before aides steered him away from reporters. Ted Cruz 47% to 40%, and Florida Sen. Trump said, drawing applause from the crowd.

On Thursday, an NBC News reporter pressed Trump in Iowa on whether there should be a database for tracking Muslims in the U.S. Trump replied: “There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases”. When asked about requiring Muslims to register in a database or carry a form of special identification noting their religion, Trump said, “We’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely”.

The video, posted on the Gateway Pundit, shows that the entire “Muslim registry” concept was the brainchild of a reporter and that Trump’s so-called agreement to the idea is based on trick editing.

Radio host Rush Limbaugh said the furor provoked by the reports of a “Muslim registry” will not sink Trump. The reporter asked if that was something Trump would put in place as president.

“I would certainly implement that”.

In an interview on Fox News Channel on Friday evening, Trump tried to clarify his position.

“I do want database for those people coming in”, the Republican presidential candidate said at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama.

“I do want surveillance”.

“But right now we need to have a border, we have to have strength, we have to have a wall, and we can not let what’s happening to this country happen any longer”, Trump said. “I want surveillance of these people”.

Donald Trump says “trouble’s coming out of the mosques” in the United States and “we’re being foolish, we’re kidding ourselves” if law enforcement doesn’t keep close surveillance on those houses of worship.

“You’re talking about internment, you’re talking about closing mosques, you’re talking about registering people and that’s just wrong”, Bush said on CNBC. I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down – as those buildings came down, and that tells you something. “We’ve had it before and we’ll have it again”.

Trump then denounced calls to resettle Syrian refuges on US soil, which his Republican rivals for the nomination also oppose.