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  • 2015-11-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Trump Say Muslims Should Be Required to Wear Badges? (en)
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  • On 19 November 2015 The Hill website published an article titled Trump won't rule out database, special ID for Muslims in US, which reported on an interview given by Donald Trump after a series of terror attacks hit Paris on 13 November 2015: The comments attributed to Trump caused immediate controversy on Twitter, where a number of users compared the described mandating of badges to similar treatment of Jews in Europe before the Holocaust: However, The Hill was a secondary source for the comments, which were originally published in a 19 November 2015 Yahoo! Politics article titled Donald Trump has big plans for ‘radical Islamic’ terrorists, 2016 and ‘that communist’ Bernie Sanders. In the context of that interview, Trump's responses were non-committal. Furthermore, they were clearly in response to leading questions, the actual phrasing of which wasn't provided to readers: Precisely how such a question was presented to Trump was not elaborated upon in the printed text of the interview, nor was what his exact response (not rul[ing] it out) entailed. Moreover, the portions involving quotes were so exceptionally vague (do things that we never did before, certain things will be done) and full of obfuscation, it was impossible to discern even vaguely what Trump wasr eferencing. (The mandate of badges for Muslims was quite a leap by any measure.) While it appeared Trump fielded a question about enhanced surveillance for Muslims and mosques, in no reasonable interpretation of the material provided did he himself suggest that followers of Islam should wear badges like Jews in Nazi Germany. That assertion appeared to be one fronted by the interviewer and not fairly attributable to Donald Trump. It's true that Trump espoused a position many would deem objectionable or offensive in the little he did say, but the controversy hinged largely on words he didn't appear to have said. On 20 November 2015, The New York Times published an article titled Donald Trump Says He’d ‘Absolutely’ Require Muslims to Register. In that article Trump was pressed on his earlier statements, and he deflected the question in similarly vague fashion: Trump later posted a tweet clarifying that the database suggestion came from a reporter: In the tweet Trump mentioned a watch list and surveillance, presumably the measures he referenced in an initially ambiguous fashion. Like the original paraphrased material published by Yahoo! Politics, the Times' followup piece included partial quotes from Trump without providing any information about the specific question to which Trump was responding. Trump didn't go into detail about who might be on such a watch list, or even whether it would be one that deviated from extant terror watch lists adopted after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Portions of the two articles in which Trump was quoted used the phrase registering Muslims, but only in the context of an undescribed question asked by a reporter (and not a response from Trump). (en)
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