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Home Front: Politix
Trump on Muslims: It wasn't Swedes 'who blew up the World Trade Center'
2015-09-21
[Examiner] After refusing to reprimand a supporter who talked about the "problem" with Muslims in the United States at a town hall this week, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump doubled down Sunday, saying there is a "very severe problem" with some Muslims.

"It wasn't people from Sweden who blew up the World Trade Center," Trump told Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union."

"I get that -- but to say we have a problem and it's called Muslims because there are some extremist Muslims, is tarring all Muslims," said Tapper.

"Well I don't agree with that at all, but you have extremist Muslims that are in a class by themselves," said Trump, who leads the Washington Examiner's presidential power rankings. "It is a problem in this country and it's a problem throughout the world. I mean all you have to do is look at Europe."
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  See JAPAN TIMES > ISLAM IS ANTITHETICAL TO THE US CONSTITUTION, SO A MUSLIM SHOULD NOT BE [US] PRESIDENT, CARSON SAYS.

The good Doctor Ben is sticking by his guns + refusing to apologize.

On a separate note, I should ask him iff he knows Diane C. + Friends from Altoona + Penn State, PA.

VERSUS

* FREEREPUBLIC, TOPIX > TED CRUZ: IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO NOT ALLOW A MUSLIM TO BE [US]PRESIDENT.

CRUZ IS MOST CLEARLY OBVIOUSLY NOT A MADONNA FAN.

Remember this time + those words, DemoLefties, as ISLAMERIKA NOT COMMIE-SOCIALIST SECULAR AMERIKA slowly but steadily rises 2030-2050.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-09-21 23:04  

#11  IS "THE DONALD" SO SURE ABOUT THAT - How close is Sweden to Denmark, since as per FREEREPUBLIC Muslims in Denmark are repor protesting in the streets demanding Caliphate???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-09-21 20:40  

#10  The thing is Trump gets hear and there are a lot of folks in America who won't admit what he says is true out loud for fear of being called this and that but know it to be true and may vote that opinion.

That is the secret to Trumps strength. He doesn't care what they say about him as long as they talk. And he says what many are thinking without weasel words.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-09-21 15:13  

#9  Elmert lists some good talking points but in my unfortunate experience most liberals/progressives/socialists/communists/donkocrats will not listen. Their knee jerk reaction is to label anyone who would even start on such talking points as a racist islamophobe and all dialogue would then cease.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-09-21 12:05  

#8  Trapper and his fellow slime have a problem with saying "muslims" did it because it tars all muslims.

However, some tea party guy or person with a gun they will use to tar everyone that even thought positive about the tea party or even is sympathetic to gun rights.

My response would be to him, "Until you fix that hypocrisy you can go fuck yourself"
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-09-21 11:44  

#7  but he is a bit of a showboating narcissist, and possibly a clinical psychopath

Eh... that is pretty much a job requirement for the President these days - for good or bad.

so they can get special legal protections like blasphemy laws

Ahmed the briefcase bomb hoaxer is a prime example.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-09-21 10:30  

#6  well done posting on the OIC

the OIC is indeed the enemy and is seeking a special sharia-compliant Cairo declaration of human rights

they have agent provocateurs funded in western nations to run fear campaigns that muslims are victims of islamophobia so they can get special legal protections like blasphemy laws
Posted by: anon1   2015-09-21 09:53  

#5  Trump appears to be speaking plain english and i like that. he is unafraid to blame theocratic muslims and i like that too.

but he is a bit of a showboating narcissist, and possibly a clinical psychopath

could he make a good president?
Posted by: anon1   2015-09-21 09:51  

#4  A few talking points that might come in handy for defenders of Trump on this issue:

OIC consensus Islam is totally incompatible with Western style democracy. Ideological deviation is severely punished. In many important states of the OIC it carries the death penalty.

Even the most moderate muslim states are allies in the name of Islam of the most extreme states.
Thus they're recognizing extreme Islam as a legitimate form of Islam.

The OIC is officially demanding that non-muslims in the be subjected to Sharia restrictions.

Thus the OIC officially doesn't recognize any Western nation as a sovereign entity.

Thus the OIC's official political position versus the West is more hostile than the Soviet Union's.

Many, perhaps most mosques in the West are affiliated with OIC government institutions.
Muslims attending these mosques cannot be absolved from all accountability for the OIC nations' misdeeds.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2015-09-21 09:32  

#3  "I get that -- but to say we have a problem and it's called Muslims "the South" because there are some extremist Muslims "Southerns", is tarring all Muslims Southerns," said Tapper.

I'm sure Tapper and his fellow slimes in the media would have not problem with that rewrite. Given the opportunity, the MSM has absolutely no problem playing that game themselves.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-09-21 08:20  

#2  Well, he didn't say "Do the Lord's Work and let God sort em out." He just stated a fact. He didn't complicate it by weasel-wording things and getting hung up in semantics such as discussing the good Japanese and bad Japanese or the good Germans and bad Germans or the good Muslims and the bad Muslims.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-09-21 07:45  

#1  It won't be too long before they are coming from Sweden.

But they won't be "Swedes".
Posted by: Bobby   2015-09-21 07:19  

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