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Kristallnacht was a turning point on the path to the concentration camps and the Holocaust, at the end of which 6 million Jews would be killed
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much of the current level of Islamophobia appears justified to many Americans because of the terrible and tragic killings by Muslims in San Bernardino and Paris.
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Trump has taken the first tiny dangerous steps towards unleashing forces that could trigger large-scale violence against the Muslim community.
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"We have a problem in this country. It's called Muslims ... When can we get rid of them?" Trump merely replied, "We're going to be looking at that and many other things."
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first abuse and demonize the minority community, then isolate it, then suggest violence and finally encourage and indulge in violence.
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he suddenly said that he would ban all Muslims from entering the United State
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She said her rival's recently proposed ban on Muslims entering the US was "dangerous".
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A recent poll showed that a majority of Americans opposed Mr Trump's ban idea, while 25% of those polled were in favour of it.
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"Now he has gone way over the line,"
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"What he is saying now is not only shameful and wrong, it is dangerous".
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Mr Trump is giving groups like the so-called Islamic State (IS) "a great propaganda tool"
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way to recruit more folks from Europe and the United States".
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Islamic militant groups ignored contact attempts from Pakistan-born Tashfeen Malik in the months before she and her husband killed 14 people at a California holiday party
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groups almost certainly included al Qaeda’s Syria-based official affiliate
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extremely wary of responding to outsiders they do not know or who have not been introduced to them
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Fourteen people were killed and 21 others were wounded in the assault,
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heightened security concerns in the United States and become an issue in the U.S. presidential campaign.
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Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims into the U.S. would have drastic consequences for the American travel industry
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just over 1 million Middle East-based travelers passed through U.S. customs
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, these travelers spent an average of $6,000 each for a total of $6.8 billion.
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e total cost of Donald Trump’s ban could be as high as $18.4 billion.
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Keep Israel out of it.
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Israel obviously supports the effort to stop the Islamic State.
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Western leaders should also pause to reconsider the old habit of keeping Israel on the sidelines
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Israel’s habitual exclusion is ostensibly based on sound logic
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An invitation to join this coalition would demonstrate to the world that Israel is not a pariah state
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the Middle East is no longer preoccupied with the straw man that is the Israeli-Arab conflict.
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Fighting the Islamic State is tough, but getting rid of old habits seems to be tougher.
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over from mere extremism into some dark borderland of reckless ignorance
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all Muslims be banned from entering the country until we can figure out “what’s going on.
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find themselves faced with an existential threat that has no parallel for either party in my lifetime.
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Either Trump or the Republican Party as we’ve known it can come out of this election without having been politically destroyed — but almost certainly not both.
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Trump is unstoppable
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ontinue airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State, the group that claimed responsibility for the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 people in the Paris area
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ermany’s chancellor said her country would do more in the global fight against the group.
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s joined the American-led coalition against extremists of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL
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