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Republican U.S. presidential front-runner Donald Trump1 is drawing rebukes2 from across the world for proposing a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States until the country's leaders can “figure out what is going on” about possible new terrorist attacks.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Tuesday called Trump's rhetoric3 "offensive and toxic," saying his plan "disqualifies him from serving as president" because he would be violating the U.S. Constitution if he implemented4 it, should he win the country's 2016 presidential contest.
British Prime Minister David Cameron called Trump's plan "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong."
'Islamophobia, xenophobia'
Donald Trump Anti-Muslim Demand Sparks Sharp Backlash
Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for U.N. General-Secretary Ban Ki-moon, in responding to Trump's latest comments, said, "We do not believe that any kind of rhetoric that relies on Islamophobia, xenophobia, any other appeal to hate any groups, really should be followed by anyone."
Keysar Trad, chairman of the Sydney-based Islamic Friendship Association of Australia, called Trump's comment "a desperate statement by a desperate man who knows that he's clutching at straws and has no chance of winning the election. So he's trying to win it off the back of the Islamophobia industry."
In the U.S., Trump's political opponents widely condemned5 his proposal and legal experts told news outlets6 that a ban on Muslims entering the country would be unconstitutional.
"Donald Trump is unhinged," Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush, a former Florida governor and son and brother of two former U.S. presidents, said on Twitter, "His 'policy' proposals are not serious."
Another of Trump's Republican opponents, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, described Trump's proposal to ban Muslims as "un-American," and said, "He is helping7 the enemy of this nation, by assisting Islamic State to recruit more fighters."
The Republican leader of the House of Representatives, Speaker Paul Ryan, denounced the Trump idea, saying it "is not what this party stands for and more importantly not what this country stands for."
Ibraham Hooper, director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, had an especially blistering8 response to Trump's demand.
"We're entering into the realm of the fascist9 now," Hooper said. "It should be disturbing not only to American-Muslims, but it should be disturbing to all Americans that the leading Republican presidential candidate would issue essentially10 a fascist statement like this."
US Constitution
Noted11 U.S. constitutional expert Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law professor, told MSNBC that Trump's proposal would violate the U.S. Constitution's ban on religious tests and granting all citizens equal rights.
Moreover, Tribe said, the plan would be "impossible to administer" and "stupidly play into the hands of extreme Islamic terrorists."
Another law professor, Richard Friedman of the University of Michigan, told The Washington Post that Trump's idea is "blatantly12 unconstitutional if it excludes U.S. citizens (from re-entering the U.S. after trips to other countries) because they are Muslims. It's ridiculous."
Trump, a billionaire real estate mogul who leads presidential preference surveys of Republicans, announced the plan Monday in a statement, then expanded on it at a political rally in South Carolina.
He called it "common sense" and said that "we have no choice" in the wake of last week's attack at a California government center that killed 14 people and was carried out by two Muslims, a husband-and-wife team investigators13 say had been "radicalized."
On Tuesday morning news shows in the U.S., the flamboyant14 Trump continued to defend the proposal and condemned President Barack Obama's efforts in leading the fight against Islamic State militants15 in the Middle East.
"We are now at war," Trump told ABC's Good Morning America. "We have a president who doesn't want to say that."
In a contentious16 interview on cnn, Trump referenced the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., saying, "You're going to have many more World Trade Centers if you don't solve it. They want our buildings to come down. They want our cities to be crushed. They are living in our country and many are outside of our country."
In announcing the plan, Trump alleged18 that polling data shows "hatred toward Americans by large segments of the Muslim population."
"Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous19 attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life," Trump said.
Virulent20 statements against Muslims are nothing new for Trump, who has called on the government to monitor mosques21, and has refused to rule out his earlier proposal to enter the names of Muslims in America into a database.
Trump's proposal came a day after Obama urged Americans during a nationally televised address not to turn against Muslims in the wake of the terrorist attacks.
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1 trump | |
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭 | |
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2 rebukes | |
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n.修辞学,浮夸之言语 | |
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v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 );执行;贯彻;使生效 | |
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n.出口( outlet的名词复数 );经销店;插座;廉价经销店 | |
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adj.酷热的;猛烈的;使起疱的;可恶的v.起水疱;起气泡;使受暴晒n.[涂料] 起泡 | |
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9 fascist | |
adj.法西斯主义的;法西斯党的;n.法西斯主义者,法西斯分子 | |
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12 blatantly | |
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15 militants | |
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21 mosques | |
清真寺; 伊斯兰教寺院,清真寺; 清真寺,伊斯兰教寺院( mosque的名词复数 ) | |
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