Donald Trump: 'I think Islam hates us'

Washington (CNN)—Donald Trump said Wednesday that he thinks "Islam hates us," drawing little distinction between the religion and radical Islamic terrorism.

I think Islam hates us,

Trump told CNN's Anderson Cooper, deploring the "tremendous hatred" that he said partly defined the religion. He maintained the war was against radical Islam, but said,

it's very hard to define. It's very hard to separate. Because you don't know who's who.

Asked if the hate was "in Islam itself," Trump would only say that was for the media to figure out.

You're gonna have to figure that out, OK?

he told Cooper.

We have to be very vigilant. We have to be very careful. And we can't allow people coming into this country who have this hatred of the United States.

Trump made headlines in December when he called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S., "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." Despite widespread condemnation of the remarks, Trump has stood by the proposal.

In speaking with Cooper, Trump added that when asked to outline how he would project power overseas.

Trump also tried to clarify his position on how far he would go in targeting the families of terrorists. He has said in the past that he is in favor of "expanding the laws" that govern how the U.S. can combat and deter terrorism, and Trump has called to bring back waterboarding, even vowing the U.S. "should go a lot further than waterboarding."

But Trump on Wednesday declined to say what specific measures he would support.

he told Cooper. He added,

How can a religion hate someone lol

Trigger warning: hateful religious messages in spoiler:

Qur'an:
Bible:
Talmud:
Sorry, can't find many hateful messages from Hindu, Buddhist and other majorish religions...

You just have to look at India and Burma to see violence against other religions for Hinduism and Buddhism.

You may be triggered.

How can a religion hate someone lol

You just have to look at India and Burma to see violence against other religions for Hinduism and Buddhism.

You may be triggered.

Vote Bernie!

How can a religion hate someone lol

How can a religion hate someone lol

I'm a fornicator a drinker and I eat pork. I think there is no god and regularly take his name in vain (In fact once I pretended to be interested in Islam only to get a girl to sleep with me (and it worked). I offer money to people and charge them interest.

I have done horrific things to my quran and to my bible (in relative terms)

Are you telling me Islam 'loves' me for all of this or does Islam have nothing to say about my actions?

You just have to look at India and Burma to see violence against other religions for Hinduism and Buddhism.

You may be triggered.

The difference is that such acts are not doctrinally-justified, wheres in Islam they are (or it is much easier to argue as much).

There is no violence against other religion in india.
As a person who has lived there for 15 years, i could tell you that all of us live in peace and harmony.
I'm not completely disagreeing with ur point as there are some d**kheads who are born to make problems.

I've never heard of any sort of violence from buddhism?? Were you just making a claim or do u have any evidences?

Religious people can hate and be violent!? No way!!

This is about the religious teachings. We may be able to scrap some hateful teachings in Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh scripture but all of them combined would not even compare to those found in any one Abrahamic book.

So if he'd said 'Muslims hate us' that'd be OK with you? I really doubt it. He's putting the hatred onto the ideology, not onto the people. Given how many verses there are in the quran expressing the utmost contempt for non-Muslims (and I'm saying that as tactfully as possible), it's hard to say Trump is wrong here.

Ah so ethnic/religious cleansing is fine as long as the religious people do it and it doesn't say in the scriptures.