Meanwhile, Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that Trump's rhetoric is complicating U.S. diplomacy.
"I stay out of politics," he told reporters in Paris. "But on this one I have to say something because it involves my job, it involves our country."
He said that IS, also known as ISIS or Daesh, "is not Islam and there are courageous Muslims around the world in the Middle East and elsewhere standing up to it."
Kerry said that "what Mr. Trump has said runs contrary" to U.S. values of religious tolerance "and makes our job of reaching out to people and sharing America just that much more complicated and that much more difficult. And that's about as diplomatic as I can be about it."
One by one, Republican officials across the country lashed out at Trump's plan, which calls for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" to help quell the threat of terrorism."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trumps-incendiary-comments-throw-gop-into-a-tailspin_56682ec9e4b0f290e5213756
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Trump's Incendiary Comments Throw GOP Into A Tailspin
One by one, Republican officials across the country lashed out at Trump's plan.
A threat to national security? Being a citizen and alll -- isn't that treason?
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A Note on Trump: We Are No Longer Entertained
Earlier today, the candidate currently leading in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination called for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States." That was, of course, Donald Trump. On the heels of Trump's proposed change for America, we will be changing how we cover him at The Huffington Post. Back in July, we announced our decision to put our coverage of Trump's presidential campaign in our Entertainment...
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Federal Assault Weapons Ban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) — officially, the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act — is a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law that included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms it defined as assault weapons, as well as certain ammunition magazines it defined as "large capacity."
That’s why Trevor Noah says that all conservatives must be banned from entering the White House. These people meet all of the criteria for being radical Christian terrorists capable of anything. “White ISIS” or WhISIS could attack at any time.
“Daily Show” correspondent Hasan Minhaj, a peace-loving American Muslim, said Trump is absolutely right to keep Muslims out, not because they’re a danger, but rather there’s a “racist maniac” on the loose in America and his name is Donald Trump. He’s “an extremist leader who came out of nowhere” is “self-financed, recruits through social media, attracts his followers with a radical ideology to take over the world and is actively trying to promote a war between Islam and the West.”
http://www.salon.com/2015/12/09/wow_the_daily_show_calls_gruesome_racist_maniac_donald_trump_white_isis/
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Wow, “The Daily Show” calls “gruesome” “racist maniac” Donald Trump “white ISIS”
"He's self-financed, recruits through social media, attracts his followers with a radical ideology..." VIDEO
Won’t any of you just come out and say that Trump should STFU?
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That is providing aid and comfort to our enemies.
“Take, for example, our freedom of speech. It is one of the most clearly stated and robustly protected rights in the Constitution, yet it is also subject to numerous restrictions. Our speech might not be protected if it falsely damages someone’s reputation, aids and abets a crime, contains a threat of violence, reveals a trade or military secret, harasses, plagiarizes, inflicts severe emotional distress, is deemed to be obscene, incites violence, or leaks classified information, to name a few. The United States Supreme Court further allows restrictions on when, where, and how we can express ourselves even when the message itself is protected. In some cases we control who may speak, such as limitations we may constitutionally impose on the speech of students, prisoners, and government employees.
When determining what regulations on speech are acceptable, the Supreme Court carefully weighs the significant value of protecting the freedom of expression against the countervailing public interests. Thus you certainly have a right to protest, but not in a public park without a permit. You have a right to exclaim your beliefs, but not with a sound truck at night in a residential neighborhood. You have a right to express yourself through art, but not with a can of spray paint on someone else’s car. Child pornography is indisputably a type of speech, yet the Supreme Court gives it no constitutional protection, zero, because the court believes that the harm it inflicts on the abused children far outweighs any expressive value.” - Salon.com
As Loudermilk said on Fox Business Channel on Tuesday when asked about Trump’s proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S.:
“I think I understand what his sentiment was, is that most of the terrorist attacks in this nation in last several years have been by radicalized Muslim extremists. But we have a freedom here, freedom of religion. We have a constitution that every person who takes an elected office here in this nation, and every member of Congress and the president swears to one thing, that we will uphold the constitution.
“I think his remarks were irresponsible, but we live in an era where you can say anything and get away with it. …
“I think it’s hurtful for the [Republican] Party. I think it’s hurtful for the brand.”
But Loudermilk, when pressed, would not call for Trump to drop out of the race:
“He has every right to continue to run. If he’s going to drop out of the race, that’s a decision he has to make. But i think the American people need to pay attention not just to how he’s saying things but what he is saying.”
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/12/09/barry-loudermilk-donald-trumps-muslim-ban-irresponsible-hurtful-for-gop/
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