Donald Trump Says ‘Certainly Implement A Registry Of Muslims’
Donald Trump stopped at a college campus in Iowa yesterday and was asked about his views on Muslims in America, including American-born Muslims. He has held some beliefs that have drawn criticism in the past, with some politicians linking his words and ideas to those of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Trump says not only would he require a registry of Muslims if he was president, he would go even further, though he failed to articulate exactly what that would be, according to ABC News. His views on Muslims in America have been heavily discussed prior to this campaign stop, but since the Paris attacks, some pundits find his words a bit more strident.
“I would certainly implement that, absolutely. We’re going to have to — we’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely. We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully. There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases. We should have a lot of systems.”
Already, backlash against his words has begun, including within his own presidential party. One of the most outspoken is Republican presidential rival and former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who has been known for his fairly conservative views on most hot topics, including immigration.
“I find it abhorrent that Donald Trump is suggesting that we register people. That haunts back to a time that no one wants to go back to.”
Bush is without a doubt speaking about Hitler’s regime when one of the first of many assaults against the Jewish people included registries. Later, those registries were used to keep them out of certain areas, shut down their businesses, and later used to round them up into cattle trucks and take them to concentration camps, where many were immediately murdered or died of disease and hunger during extremely difficult work conditions.
However, Trump seems unfazed by these associations and, earlier this week, told Fox’s Sean Hannity that even Islamic mosques, or places or worship, should be monitored in light of the Paris attacks that left scores dead and many injured in a massacre that ISIS is taking responsibility for. He told Hannity he would even close Mosques.
“There’s absolutely no choice. Some really bad things are happening and they’re happening fast. Certainly a lot faster than our president understands because he doesn’t understand anything.”
Trump’s criticism of President Barack Obama and his policies regarding immigration, terrorist monitoring, and Syrian immigration are well-known. Trump’s outspoken language is sometimes viewed as extremist, as previously reported by the Inquisitr.
According to the New York Times, when asked how he would have Muslims register, he was vague but continued to assert that he would absolutely put them in a database.
“Different places. You sign up at different places. But it’s all about management. Our country has no management.”
Later, when signing autographs at a public event, a reporter asked Trump if he considered his views on registering Muslims as similar to what happened to the Jewish citizens of Germany during Hitler’s regime, he gave no reply. When the question was rephrased and he was asked how his ideas to have all Muslims entered into a database were unlike those of Nazi Germany, he replied, “You tell me.”
His remarks came after the House voted to severely restrict Syrian immigration in response to the terrorist attacks last week in Paris, France.
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