Posted on 12/08/2015 5:21:26 PM PST by jazusamo
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump added a few caveats Tuesday to his call to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the country, but condemnation still rained down upon him form his party's top elected officials and from world leaders, including America's closest allies, England and France.
The proposal to close the borders to Muslim immigrants and visitors was never intended to apply to foreign dignitaries or American Muslims who travel abroad and wish to return, said the billionaire businessman and reality TV star.
He just wanted to stop a new wave of Muslims from moving in "until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on" with radical Islamic terrorists, he said repeatedly in a series of appearances on TV news shows.
"What I'm doing is no different than FDR," Mr. Trump said on ABC's "Good Morning America," referring to President Franklin Roosevelt's policies during World War II that put Japanese, German and Italian people in detention camps.
And yet furious objections that Mr. Trump's plan was unconstitutional, un-American and downright bigoted grew exponentially and spread around the globe the day after he proposed it.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said through a spokeswoman that Mr. Trump's idea was "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong."
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, whose country continues to recover from the Islamic State attack on Paris last month that killed 130 people, took to Twitter to admonish Mr. Trump.
"Mr. Trump, like others, strokes hatred and confusion: our only enemy is radical Islam," he wrote.
Muslim nations found the ban particularly distasteful.
Egypt's official religious organization, Dar al-Ifta, denounced Mr. Trump for spewing "hate rhetoric."
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By Trump getting this condemnation from liberals, leftists and socialists shows he's proposing the right thing.
GO Trump/Cruz...Cruz/Trump!
we need to repatriate (export, return, remove) them to the 57 countries they’ve already taken over and subjugated (mostly by the same methods they’re using to take over Europe and USA now)
and we need to stop using the word “refugee” for them...
its not like these young military-aged men don’t have Muslim-dominated lands they can go to!
Trump’s proposal is a very small first step, but still a only a start of what we need to get done
Bump!
The Trump Poll-boosting Outrage of The Week.
It’s amazing how simple and easy many solutions are to today’s most serious problems. Most politicians don’t want these problems solved, they just want to dither and wring their hands as Rome burns.
“By Trump getting this condemnation from liberals, leftists and socialists shows he’s proposing the right thing.”
My support for, pride in, and hope for Trump have doubled over this. He is so right and so courageous!
We have our own American Churchill!
Finally, some defiance on OUR side. FINALLY.
Hopefully his rallys will swell with even MORE supporters!
.....while stuffing their pockets.
We sure do......PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP sure sounds good.
You’re right on, they’re more worried about their reelection than the future of the country.
More headlines = more free publicity for Trump.
Nearly every political interview on the new channels and media include ‘Trump’ in some way or another.
Most of the other candidates (both parties) can only garner a bit of attention when they are attacking Trump. And that keeps Trump in the headlines.
Oscar Wilde - ‘There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.’
Let's drop the PC Crap and save our country.
Widespread condemnation from the Uniparty.
*snicker*
changing tagline.
We have our own American Churchill!”””””
We sure do......PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP sure sounds good.
Hear, hear!!
Can’t happen soon enough.
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