Hillary responds to question on Islamophobia with severe criticism of Trump

Language of Republican front-runner insults, demeans and denigrates different people, says the former first lady


News Desk January 27, 2016
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. PHOTO: REUTERS

Hillary Clinton bashed on Monday her Republican counterpart Donald Trump, while replying to a Muslim-American woman's question regarding the former's role in making the United States safer for Muslims.

The democratic presidential front-runner was addressing a CNN town-hall event when an Air Force veteran raised a question about how Clinton would make the US safe for Muslim children, given the rise of Islamophobia in the country.

Clinton, used the question as an opportunity to criticise Trump, who called the Muslim population 'dangerous' to the US.

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"One of the most distressing aspects of this campaign has been the language of Republican candidates, particularly their front-runner that insults, demeans, denigrates different people," Clinton said. "He has cast a wide net — he started with Mexicans. Now it's Muslims."

"But I found it particularly harmful the way he has talked about Muslims — American Muslims, and Muslims around the world," she added.

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"It's not only shameful and contrary to our values to say that people of a certain religion should not come to this country, or to claim that there are no real people of the Muslim faith that share our values, and to have the kind of dismissive and insulting approach. It's not only shameful and offensive, which it is. I think it's dangerous."

In December 2015, Trump had called for a “total and complete” block on Muslims entering the United States, in the wake of mass shooting in California by a Muslim couple believed to have been radicalised.

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A statement from Trump’s campaign team said the halt on Muslims entering the country should remain in place “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

However, soon after the statement, while responding to a question whether Muslims were a threat to the US, Trump said, “I love the Muslims. I think they’re great people."

This article originally appeared on Business Insider

COMMENTS (1)

Ali | 8 years ago | Reply I will pray for Hillary Clinton win in the election and bring peace.War monger Donald Trump want to conquer the world.
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