Fighting Donald Trump's Islamophobia With Humor and History
Doomed to repeat it and all that.
A special ID for an religious minority … what could go wrong? https://t.co/MZida9vdsb
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) November 19, 2015
New Republic senior editor Jeet Heer‘s tweet above referenced the latest display of intolerant Trump claptrap, this time in an interview with Yahoo Poltics’ Hunter Walker, in which Donald Trump laid out a plan that violated more than one constitutional right of Muslims in the United States. This included more surveillance, a “very, very, careful” look at mosques, warrantless searches and the following attention-garnering bit:
Yahoo News asked Trump whether this level of tracking might require registering Muslims in a database or giving them a form of special identification that noted their religion.
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