London – British PM: Trump’s Muslim Comments ‘Divisive And Wrong’

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    FILE - Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron listens during a discussion with members of the local Muslim community on a visit to Luton, north of London, on October 19, 2015. ReutersLondon – British Prime Minister David Cameron thinks a proposal by U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump to ban Muslims from entering the United States is divisive and wrong, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

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    Trump was responding to last week’s deadly shooting spree in California by two Muslims whom the FBI said had been radicalized. He likened his proposal to World War Two policies implemented by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt against people of Japanese, German and Italian descent.

    “The PM (Prime Minister) completely disagrees with the comments made by Donald Trump, which are divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong,” Cameron’s spokeswoman told reporters.

    Britain has an estimated 2.7 million Muslim population. Earlier this year, the government said fighting extremism was one of the defining battles of this century and announced a strategy primarily designed to counter the ideology promoted by Islamic State militants, al Qaeda and other radical Islamists.

    Britain is a close ally of the United States in the Western campaign against Islamist militants.

    After Trump’s remarks, the United Nations refugee agency said that election campaign rhetoric in the United States was harming a vital U.S. resettlement program for Syrian and other refugees fleeing war and persecution.


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    fat36
    fat36
    8 years ago

    With all the killings and beheadings and all the craziness that those people do all of a sudden they’re up and arms on what Trump said they all woke up how come none of them have said a word until today with everything that is going on with what their people are doing.

    54321
    54321
    8 years ago

    These people are in sucidal denial. If this lady in the picture was able she would slit his throat.

    8 years ago

    Um….where does a Brit come off commenting on what we’re doing in the US? Have we criticized his political handling of issues in England??

    8 years ago

    The Brits play both sides of the fence. Prior to EY declaring itself an independent state, England would supply arms to the Arabs, and harass Jews who tried to defend themselves. Also, it refused to let Jews go to Palestine during World War Two, dooming many Jews to the Nazi holocaust. Therefore, Cameron should mind his own business, and worry about his own back yard.