New York Times
By Alan Rappeport
November 16, 2015
Donald
J. Trump issued another call for more scrutiny of mosques in the United
States as fresh fears of terrorism, spurred by the attacks in Paris,
dominated the presidential
campaign conversation on Monday.
Mr.
Trump, who said last month that he would be open to shutting down
mosques as part of the fight against Islamic State militants, reiterated
on Monday that the idea
should be “studied.”
“I
would hate it do it but it’s something that you’re going to have to
strongly consider because some of the ideas and some of the hatred, the
absolute hatred, is coming
from these areas,” Mr. Trump said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program.
Mr.
Trump said that if he were to become president, surveillance of mosques
is something that he would “watch and study” because “a lot of talk is
going on at the mosques.”
Mr.
Trump’s concerns about radical Islam were echoed by another leading
Republican presidential candidate on Monday. Ben Carson, who has been
running close with Mr. Trump
atop many polls, called on Congress to defund its program to give safe
passage to Syrian refugees. The retired neurosurgeon also suggested that
Muslim clerics should be pressured to condemn the Islamic State, also
known as ISIS or ISIL.
“I
believe that we need to put a lot more pressure on the clerics, the
imams, to make a very distinct line between what ISIS, ISIL, the radical
Islamic jihadists are doing,
and what traditional Islam is about,” Mr. Carson said in Nevada.
Jeb
Bush, the former Florida governor, also expressed concern about
refugees from the Middle East entering the United States and said over
the weekend that Christians
and Muslims who are fleeing Syria should be treated differently.
“We
should focus our efforts as it relates to refugees for the Christians
that are being slaughtered,” Mr. Bush said, telling CNN that only a
limited number of refugees
should be accepted and that the creation of safe zones in Syria should
be the priority.
The
suggestion of basing refugee status on religion offended President
Obama on Monday. Speaking at a news conference in Turkey, he called the
idea un-American.
“When
I hear political leaders suggesting that there would be a religious
test for which a person who’s fleeing from a war-torn country is
admitted, when some of those
folks themselves come from families who benefited from protection when
they were fleeing political persecution — that’s shameful,” the
president said.
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