Opinion: The real threat to religious freedom is Trump
By Michael Gerson Michael Gerson Columnist Email Bio Follow Columnist April 15 at 5:57 PM So another norm of public decency falls, like a historical building demolished to make way for one of Donald Trump’s tasteless towers.
This cruelty extends to those who have fled war in Syria. President Barack Obama did little to serve their interests. Now, the victims of violence are treated as villains in Trump’s fictional version of global threats. Syrian refugees, according to Trump, are “trying to take over our children and convince them how wonderful ISIS is, and how wonderful Islam is.” On the strength of such calumnies, Trump has essentially destroyed America’s asylum system.
The Koran, in Trump’s scholarly opinion, “teaches some very negative vibe.” He has claimed: “You have people coming out of mosques with hatred and death in their eyes.” He once called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” He has variously and publicly considered the closing of mosques, warrantless searches and the creation of a national database to track Muslims. In Trump’s view, “We’re going to have to do things that we never did before.
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