Donald Trump is never discouraged from expressing and talking about what he wants to merely due to Islamic Terrorists use his words to replenish Muslims to their cause.
The Republican presidential candidate rejected his appearance in the recruitment video of an African militant group. The video shows footage of Trump calling for Muslims to be banned from coming to the U.S. On yesterday’s news, Trump said it’s no surprise America’s enemies would exploit comments of a presidential front runner like himself.
“The world is talking about what I’ve said,” Trump told CBS’s “Face the Nation” in an interview taped Friday. “And now, big parts of the world are saying, Trump is really right, at least identifying what’s going on. And we have to solve it. But you’re not going to solve the problem unless you identify it.”
Trump made his most extreme pledge yet — in a race in which he has consistently pushed the boat on issues of race and immigration — in a statement released to the media through his presidential campaign team.
He said there was such hatred among Muslims around the world towards Americans that it was necessary to rebuff them en masse until the problem was better understood.
“Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life,” the billionaire real estate developer said.
Hillary Clinton professed in the last Democratic presidential debate that another extremist group, the Islamic State, has been using video of Trump in its agenda. However, she did not have any proof that ISIS had done so. Trump told “Fox & Friends” the emergence since then of the al-Shabab video doesn’t change the fact she was wrong: “It wasn’t ISIS and it wasn’t made at the time, and she lied.”
Trump told CBS that Democrats don’t want to talk about Islamic radicalism, but he won’t shy away from it for the sake of depriving extremists of fodder for their recruitment. “What am I going to do?” he asked. “I have to say what I have to say. And you know what I have to say? There’s a problem. We have to find out what is the problem. And we have to solve that problem.”
The video, predominantly seeking the support of blacks and Muslims in the U.S., contains a clip of Trump proposing the “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” an idea rebuffed by his rivals in both parties. Al-Shabab is fighting the internationally backed Somali government and has carried out many guerrilla attacks there and in countries contributing troops to the effort to stabilize security.
Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser in the Obama administration, said the U.S. is at war with terrorists, not Islam. “The terrorists want us to act like we’re at war with Islam,” he said. “That’s how they recruit people. That’s how they stir up grievances.”
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