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Donald Trump's Sharia Compliance
PJ Media ^ | 10/22/15 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 02/24/2016 8:36:14 PM PST by Night Hides Not

Donald Trump's boast that if he had been president, the September 11 jihad terror attacks would not have happened because "if I were running things, I doubt those people would have been in the country," has been gaining him even more notoriety and cheers from foes of Obama's immigration policies. What Trump would do to prevent jihad terror attacks by domestic jihadis, or Sharia encroachment on American freedoms, however, is far less clear than his stance on immigration, and some of the things he has said about these matters should give even the most full-throated of his enthusiasts considerably less to cheer about.

Several weeks ago, in the midst of Ben Carson's remarks on sharia, Eric Bolling of Fox News asked Trump: "Would you want the president or a candidate to say, 'I will promise to uphold the Constitution over the Sharia law'?" Trump replied: "Well, I think it's an argument I don't want to get into, it's not my argument, so it's an argument that I won't get into."

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To: JediJones

Having that opinion of Geller’s event does not imply advocacy of sharia law. I thought the event was rather silly.


21 posted on 02/24/2016 9:16:29 PM PST by sockhead
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To: JediJones

The cartoon contest IMO was something rational people could disagree on. I was fine with it personally but I could see where someone might think it was a little juvenile. Everything in the world is not black or white.


22 posted on 02/24/2016 9:17:56 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: datura
"Would you want the president or a candidate to say, 'I will promise to uphold the Constitution over the Sharia law'?" Trump replied: "Well, I think it's an argument I don't want to get into, it's not my argument, so it's an argument that I won't get into."

It's an easy enough question to answer yes to.

23 posted on 02/24/2016 9:21:51 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Night Hides Not

Trump is secretly a Muslim. You heard it here first.

TDS


24 posted on 02/24/2016 9:27:24 PM PST by JhawkAtty
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To: sockhead
I interpreted Trump's response as simply a clumsy way to get out of associating himself with Carson and the criticism Carson was taking. It was a misstep, but without supporting evidence, not worth hanging him on.

Hmmmmm, the President of the United States is supposed to support and DEFEND the Constitution and the laws of our country. If Mr Trump doesn't "want to get into it" about whether he would put OUR LAWS before Sharia law, he doesn't need to be in the White House, IMHO.

I also didn't like how Mr Trump (and others) tried to infer that Pamela Geller "instigated" the terrorist attack in Garland by being "inflammatory".

We've already had a President that doesn't seem to take Islamic terrorism as seriously as he should......we sure don't need another one.

25 posted on 02/24/2016 9:33:12 PM PST by TXSearcher (If it walks like a liberal, talks like a liberal........it IS a LIBERAL.)
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To: Night Hides Not

Not in our best interest to have Trump as POTUS. After 50 years inviting the destruction of American citizens before they are born we need, and deserve, Hillary.


26 posted on 02/24/2016 9:47:01 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Diversity is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharing the same jail cell.)
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To: Night Hides Not

Another liar for Cruz.


27 posted on 02/24/2016 9:47:50 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Trump for me. I want to see Hillary, Bernie or any demoncrap crushed)
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To: TXSearcher

My point was that Trump, in the interview, was focused on the Carson question and answered badly because of it, like misspeaking. I do not believe that Trump does not understand that the POTUS is supposed to uphold and defend the Constitution.


28 posted on 02/24/2016 9:48:01 PM PST by sockhead
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To: Night Hides Not

Your explanation is as idiotic as the article


29 posted on 02/24/2016 9:49:59 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Trump for me. I want to see Hillary, Bernie or any demoncrap crushed)
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To: TXSearcher

More to the point: I believe Trump meant he didn’t want to get into putting his foot into the Carson and the criticism Carson was taking.


30 posted on 02/24/2016 9:50:28 PM PST by sockhead
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To: Night Hides Not

Since Donald couldn’t define a conservative, it’s possible he doesn’t know what Sharia is.


31 posted on 02/24/2016 9:51:43 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftidsts is the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: jessduntno
I'd worry too, except for this.

Remember when Reagan was elected, the Iranian hostages were en route to the US the same *day* he was inaugurated?

They were scared he was gonna nuke 'em.

And Jimmy Carter actually ran ads of 'random citizens" in San Francisco saying how scary it would be to have someone like Reagan with his finger on the button; and ABC News had that ridiculous "The Day After" Made for TV Event TM with panel discussions afterward, a great, solemn, circle jerk of self-induced panic.

We're still here. The Soviets have disbanded...but notice how all fears of nuclear proliferation are as though they never existed, now that the Dems are handing out nuclear secrets like candy?

...but one thing remains.

The Dems are now trying the "too crazy to have his finger on the button" schtick against Trump.

Word gets around, you know.

32 posted on 02/24/2016 9:58:25 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: sockhead
More to the point: I believe Trump meant he didn’t want to get into putting his foot into the Carson and the criticism Carson was taking.

Sorry, I didn't understand that. After reading this, I went back and listened to the video again. You could be correct that Mr Trump just didn't want to get pulled into the Carson situation.

As a Texan, though, after last year's mess in Irving over Sharia law, the Garland attack and the Said honor killings.....I just wish Trump would have clearly stated his belief.

Thanks for clarifying what you were saying.......

33 posted on 02/24/2016 10:11:00 PM PST by TXSearcher (If it walks like a liberal, talks like a liberal........it IS a LIBERAL.)
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To: TXSearcher
As a Texan, though, after last year's mess in Irving over Sharia law, the Garland attack and the Said honor killings.....I just wish Trump would have clearly stated his belief.

I understand, and I agree with wanting to hear Trump state his position, state that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land.

34 posted on 02/24/2016 10:19:41 PM PST by sockhead
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To: grey_whiskers

“The Dems are now trying the “too crazy to have his finger on the button” schtick against Trump.”

Agreed on many counts however...these are not the old enemies. And we may have no old friends in the bag, now that we have had apology tours and lifted our skirts.

I don’t know. I really am one of those undecided that I used to never believe existed.


35 posted on 02/24/2016 10:21:32 PM PST by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: jessduntno

Our old friends are the Minuteman MIRVs, the B-52s with cruise missiles (the real ones, not the Texan with the Goldman-Sucks/CFR spouse), and the Trident-armed subs.


36 posted on 02/24/2016 10:35:21 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Night Hides Not

GOPe Announce Plans To Go "Full Mississippi"
on Donald Trump To Destroy Him





When little known Chris McDaniel beat entrenched RINO U.S. Senator Thad Cochran in the first Mississippi primary of 2014 it triggered a series of events that became known simply as
"Mississippi 14"


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The entrenched DC republican elite developed a plan to destroy McDaniel before the run-off primary. They decided to call McDaniel a racist, pay for print and broadcast attack ads, request help from black Mississippi pastors, and pay Democrats, preachers and voters to vote in the run-off election. Republicans in DC attacking a republican outsider.

Their Machiavellian plan worked.

In the run-off Chris McDaniel again beat Thad Cochran with Republican voters, but the paid-to-vote Democrats lifted Cochran back onto the throne in the elite Republican Chamber.

Against the desperation of a South Carolina victory for Donald Trump, and now a Nevada victory for Donald Trump, the DC Republican team have re-enlisted the exact same players to roll out a similar nuclear attack approach against the outsider Republican.

Appearing on Bloomberg News the former Mississippi architect, Stuart Stevens, and Mississippi financier/bag-man, Henry Barbour, who carried out the Mississippi Strategy , openly admit their intent to use the same level of vitriol to remove Donald Trump.

stevens - halprin - barbour

(L-R) Stuart Stevens – Mark Halprin – Henry Barbour


See the Video Here (at 23:10) as Stuart Stevens and Henry Barbour are assembled again to discuss the process of “taking down Trump”. Stevens fully admits to the Mississippi 2014 strategy and how it will work in 2016 against Donald Trump.

So how do they do it? Simple, it's war. A thermonuclear political war. There are no boundaries, there are no rules, there is nothing too far, there is nothing held back.

They run attack ads, they'll shout names and make up malicious smears; they'll follow the candidate around to make noise at rallies; they lie about anything and everything; they'll pay anyone and everyone to assist, and they don't care if the high-information voter knows what they are doing; it's all part of the overall scorched earth plan.

They'll pay people to do and say anything, ANYTHING. Winning is all that counts. Destroying the opponent is all that matters. Every means justifies that end. Period.

The GOPe have already hired actresses and actors to appear in the attack ads and to make personal appearances, as actors, during Trump events. The hiring agency is Talent Direct Agency (TDA). The actors and production teams are working out the script details right now.

More than likely the construct begins tomorrow with the CNN debate. Expect a full media assist from an ideological corporate media empire who also has skin in the game and corporate ownership who also see candidate Donald Trump as a risk.

A thrilled attendee for the bloodbath, NRO's Charles Cooke, puts it this way:

charles cooke[…] Tomorrow night, as they stand on either side of Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz must find their resolve and all-but-machine-gun the man to the floor.

Without breaks for water or silence for applause, they must explain that Trump is an entitled mess whose business record is so questionable that he managed to bankrupt a casino; that he is an unashamed fraud who didn't even wait to be elected president before folding on Planned Parenthood and Obamacare, exactly like the feckless Congress he is running against; that he is feigning religiosity to appeal to people he believes are rubes; and, above all, that whatever he may be pretending now, he has spent a lifetime screwing the little guy.

They must repeat verbatim his previous words on amnesty; they must outline in detail how his policies will make life worse for everyone; and they must point out that a Trump nomination designed to "mix things up" will result, eventually, in more of the same.

In the meantime, conservatives who are not running for president must ensure that every spare dollar is spent attacking Trump. Melt down the fences if you have to; we need long-range bombers here.

If Donald Trump can flood the airwaves with his nonsense, his opponents can counter it incessantly. And while they are at it, they can tie him up in court, just as he's trying to do to Cruz. There are a good number of "just asking" questions ready to be put to them, among them "Trump's mother was Scottish, can he really be president?" and "Trump ran a host of scams designed to rip off the poor; surely one of them would like to sue him?"

Thus far, part of Trump's media strategy has been to say something outrageous and then to move on before it can be rebutted or fact-checked. Why are his rivals not doing the same thing to him? Why, moreover, are the men in charge of the big guns all but flirting with the snipers on the other side? (read more)

Perhaps now you can better appreciate why Mitt Romney is joining the effort and throwing anything against the wall to see if it will stick:

On Wednesday's "Your World" on FOX News, former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told Neil Cavuto that Donald Trump's tax returns may prove he hasn't been honest about his money.

Romney suggests the bombshell could include him lying about his wealth or that he has not made all those charity donations he claims to have made.

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You see, it doesn't actually matter if there's any truth to the claim, the goal is to create an absurd hurricane wind of inbound attacks driven with increasing ferocity by the corporate media who will demand the candidate to respond.

In Mississippi 2014 Chris McDaniel was not racist, nor was there anything remotely linking him to anything racist; the goal is to push the candidate away from their campaigning, the truth is irrelevant.

Once the GOPe force the candidate away from campaigning, then they begin selling the false story and using the actors/actresses, or preachers, to deliver an outcome.

By the time the next debate on Fox comes around, well, it'll be peak DEFCON-5 thermonuclear political button pushing because, quite simply, they have nothing to lose.

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37 posted on 02/24/2016 10:38:59 PM PST by onyx (YOU'RE POSTING HERE, HOPE YOU'RE A DONOR! FReepLoaders are RUDE)
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To: nickcarraway

“Sorry some people are willing to stick up for their country and not just let it get flushed down the toilet like that.”

You’re helping to do the flushing. Ted is pulling your chain.


38 posted on 02/25/2016 12:37:31 AM PST by flaglady47 (TRUMP ROCKS)
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To: stocksthatgoup
Another liar for Cruz.

Typical Trumpeteer response...bombast, I'm a liar because I posted something that you don't like. Are you going to sue me, too?

39 posted on 02/25/2016 3:15:53 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: Night Hides Not

Against al the evidence, some will find something that can be bent and twisted into a lunatic’s idea of “supporting sharia” and the lunatics will show up with the twisted info....


40 posted on 02/25/2016 4:24:05 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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