Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Trump to CNN: 'I love the Muslims'
CNN ^ | 09/19/2015 | MJ Lee

Posted on 09/19/2015 7:21:47 PM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Donald Trump on Saturday responded to a question from CNN about whether Muslims pose a danger to the country, saying: "I love the Muslims. I think they're great people."

The Republican presidential front-runner made the comment after addressing high school students here at their homecoming Saturday night.

During a question-and-answer session with students, Trump was unable to avoid being asked about the latest political controversy dogging his campaign: his decision not to correct a supporter this week who called President Barack Obama a Muslim.

One student told Trump that she considered Muslim-Americans to be an important segment of the country. They asked whether the billionaire businessman would consider putting a Muslim in his Cabinet or on his ticket.

"Oh, absolutely," Trump responded. "No problem with that."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cabinet; cruz4president; donaldtrump; fraud; muslims; phony; stoprinos; stoprinotrump; trump; trumpestablishment; trumpliberal; trumpprogressive; trumprino; walker; walker4president
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 241-260261-280281-300301-317 next last
To: Jakarta ex-pat
In fact, the vast majority of the country I live in is Muslim, but I have never felt safer in my life than living here.

The Brits had a term for it. It'll work until it doesn't.

281 posted on 09/20/2015 9:27:46 AM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 280 | View Replies]

To: TheStickman

I liked the fact that Trump was poking a sharp stick in the eyes of the Republicrat Establishment. I liked his ideas about immigration, and trade, and I believed he would have sorted out much of what has caused this country to go off the rails since WW II.

He is ballsy, and it would appear that he does not take guff FRom anyone. He is a fighter, and we all know that there have been very few Republicans in recent years willing to go nose-to-nose with Democrats and other enemies of America.

But, HST, his love affair with Moslems is a deal breaker.

He walks back his “I love Muslims” comment, and I’ll certainly reconsider.


282 posted on 09/20/2015 9:38:41 AM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 278 | View Replies]

To: TheStickman

PS Having said that, I still think the question was a setup; a “Gotcha” question that will be asked of all Conservative candidates and NO LIEberals or Democrats.


283 posted on 09/20/2015 9:40:06 AM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 278 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
He has to say this UNTIL he is elected. We do know this, right?

I wish he would have just said something like, "I would gladly consider appointing any qualified person to my cabinet as long as they love this country and are committed to the ideals and principles of our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, regardless of their ethnicity or religious background."

284 posted on 09/20/2015 9:47:53 AM PDT by CrosscutSaw
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Taxman

Trump will walk that comment back the same day he walks back any of his “I love (insert Chinese, Mexicans, Saudi Arabia, Muslims, etc) comments which will be around the 12th of never.

Don’t wanna vote for him over that. Don’t. He will win anyway :)

His comment taken in context with everything has said to date doesn’t equal support for islamic radical terrorists.


285 posted on 09/20/2015 9:48:09 AM PDT by TheStickman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 282 | View Replies]

To: Taxman
"He certainly is not supposed to say “I love Muslims.”

As a Christian, he is supposed to love our enemies.

Trump is on record saying calling ISIS terrible people and wanting to find a General Patton to hit them hard and fast, take away their sources of funding and destroy them.

Trump called out Obama for being excessively PC and refusing to call the Chatanooga shooter a terrorist.

Trump said they would eliminate any terrorist training camps in the U.S. if they find any.

And in the same press conference where he said he loved the muslims he said ""We do have a problem with radical Muslims, there's no question about that," Trump said Sunday.

286 posted on 09/20/2015 9:51:38 AM PDT by DannyTN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 208 | View Replies]

To: JennysCool
“I hate them! Hate them! ARRRRRGHHHHH!!!”?


287 posted on 09/20/2015 9:55:15 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: Taxman

Wahabist Bent Muslims, right there

Others case by case but remain diligent. One thing you have to give the Muslims is at the end of the day that loyalty is strong and Spiritual...

Watch and See....


288 posted on 09/20/2015 9:57:25 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 204 | View Replies]

To: HiTech RedNeck

I am persuaded that there is no such “thing” as “ordinary Islam.”

Sir Winston Churchill captured the essence of the Islamic culture and the nature of the individual Moslem’s character in 1899:

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

“The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

“A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.

“No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

“It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”

Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

Wir Winston was right in 1899 and his words are germaine and, perhaps, even more pertinent today.

We MUST be made aware of the dangers of minimalizing the intenntions of the adherents to Islam. We do so at our own peril, as Sir Winston warns us in his last paragraph.

For more information, please see http://www.politicalislam.com/


289 posted on 09/20/2015 9:57:48 AM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 223 | View Replies]

To: Taxman

I am persuaded that there is no such “thing” as “ordinary Islam.”....OHHHH, yes there is. A moderate Muslim is an Islamic terrorist that hasn’t come to bat yet. A liitle sports lingo there for you.


290 posted on 09/20/2015 10:17:18 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 289 | View Replies]

To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016; All

Trump is an elitist and one those kinds of folks who distains religious tenets and those that deeply profess them. In a Q and A with a Presbyterian group he jocularly refered to the commununion host as a “cracker”, a term btw which the English use to mean a joke, and professed he doesn’t need ask God for forgiveness for his mistakes because he doesn’t make any.

Now to expect for Trump to mention or repudiate Shari law which is its fundamental creed . That claims God has given its adhearants authorization to severely pumish annd execute those who refuse to submit to its arab tribal mores expressed in that code. Is expecting too much. Particularly since; Sadly, the present Pope doesn’t even seem able to do so.


291 posted on 09/20/2015 10:31:17 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (My best insights get lost in FR's because of meaningless venting no one reads.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Safetgiver

I’ll certainly buy the “sleeper” analogy.

HST, aren’t you just splitting hairs, so to speak?

He/she is only “ordinary” until he/she straps on the vest, picks up the AK and goes to work?

FRicking walking time bombs is what they are!


292 posted on 09/20/2015 10:39:39 AM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 290 | View Replies]

To: Safetgiver

Read (and liked — thanks for your service) your profile — how does one stay safe in today’s environment?


293 posted on 09/20/2015 10:41:22 AM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 290 | View Replies]

To: DannyTN

Well, I consider myself a Christian, but I do not love people or philosophies that scream for my head!


294 posted on 09/20/2015 10:44:19 AM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 286 | View Replies]

To: 100American

Please expand your post.

I am not able to decipher.

Thanks.


295 posted on 09/20/2015 10:45:24 AM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 288 | View Replies]

To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Donald Trump says: I love Muslims.
Donald Trump thinks: They taste just like chicken.


296 posted on 09/20/2015 11:04:48 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Colonel_Flagg

Oh please. How do you know he doesn’t love Muslims who may not have done nothing to him.

Are you without sin?


297 posted on 09/20/2015 11:05:24 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (JESUS CHRIST IS MY LORD AND SAVIOUR!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 279 | View Replies]

To: Taxman

A viewpoint enhanced by the fact that troublesome Muslims and Muslim societies were those he had his nose most rubbed into. And that he did not have a world wide web to search.

Such bias is understandable and explainable and errors it introduces are forgivable but we shouldn’t call it the same thing as dispassionate sociological study.

What Islam could be in principle and what it manages to actually be in practice are (and due to the blessings of God even towards unbelievers, in common grace — not due to any praise of men) not equivalent.


298 posted on 09/20/2015 11:14:29 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 289 | View Replies]

To: MIchaelTArchangel

Lol, but in a way perhaps apt here.

Could be in part that Trump is asking, what part could he see Muslims in America playing in his vision of a great America.

We would be lying if we said that Trump perhaps does not perceive what a tinderbox they can be, but still even that needs dryness and a spark to get fire. In the meantime I would not be at all surprised to see Trump have zero patience with the political correctness of CAIR, and to see CAIR reduced to perpetual whining under a hypothetical Trump administration.


299 posted on 09/20/2015 11:19:16 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 296 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Om certain that there would Hell to Pay.....for a while at least.

give it another couple....”debates”


300 posted on 09/20/2015 11:22:59 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 248 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 241-260261-280281-300301-317 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson