I find that people who make remarks like these don’t know any Muslims and usually never have. Despite living in a Buddhist country, I myself know several Muslims and have known others. They’ve all been pretty fine, upstanding people. Not a one have wanted to kill me or harm me in any way. The one’s I know now do not support ISIS or their activity in any way. One Muslim lady of my acquaintance just got married in September to a white British Christian, and they’re moving to London next month. She’s a delightful person, and I would say England will be the better for having her there.
This is very true. One analyst on BBC – he was an American, but this was on BBC – gave an interesting theory about Trump’s Muslim pronouncement. He speculated Trump woke up to see Ted Cruz inching up in the polls to his expense and then probably thought about what he could say to get the spotlight firmly back on him. I find this very possible if not probable.
All of my experience with Muslims has been great as well, at least at home(military school was another matter, but their issues seemed to have less to do with Islam and more to do with them being entitled rich kids who nevertheless were accomplished street fighters. A very problematic combination.)
Of course, he’s forgetting that sometimes TMOTY is the biggest asshole. Such as the guy who came in second(ahead of Trump’s third) Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
He just thinks that it was unfair that Hitler got the “honor” and not him. (As Time Magazine clarified, the evil German got the recognition because he was so influential in a bad way and so disruptive that year in 1938.) The good German gets the nod now.
I guess it was a combination of the furious response from the Israeli press and political opposition, instructions from Netanyahu’s patrons in the Republican establishment and his own general wariness. Whatever it was, we dodged a bullet. Literally nothing good could have come from his visit.
And I’m not sure how respectable this pollster is, but according to themabout 65% of Republican primary voters favor Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from the US. I have to have holiday dinners with some GOP primary voters, and I’ve been hearing stuff like this for years, so maybe it’s just acceptable to say it in public now. I don’t know.
I think it just underscores how the GOP has marginalized itself as the party of angry assholes, driving away thoughtful conservatives and alienating independents. I think it is a positive sign for Democrats that the Republican party is getting smaller as they circle the wagon excluding more and more people who are not like them.
I was under the impression fatwas involving calls for the death of a specific person (which are pretty rare to begin with) were mainly invoked for apostasy. It seems strange anyone would issue such an edict on the basis of a mere suggestion of a travel ban to a non-Islamic state.
If you are talking about some sort of edict coming from ISIL, from all reports they want more people coming to the areas under their control, not going away from them.
The Daily Mail is a right-wing rag known for fabricated stories and front-page bigotry, and Katie Hopkins is probably the closest thing the UK currently has to Ann Coulter - she’s a bile-filled bag of hatred for pretty much everyone, and I doubt even her supporters would use the word “respected” about her. She may well be the most hated woman in Britain at the moment.
So thanks for nailing your colo(u)rs to that particular mast, Don.
Absolutely no one apart from Brits who already think he’s insane (thanks in part to his recent London comments). He could actually dress up like Hitler and he wouldn’t lose a single supporter at this point.
The Parliamentary petition to block Trump from UK entry (on the basis that he incites hatred) is up to 439,000 signatures. You only need 100,000 to get it considered for debate (and only 10,000 for a government response). Fun times…
