Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ripped the anti-Muslim rhetoric that has emerged in the GOP primary calling it “shameful,” “offensive” and “dangerous” at Monday’s CNN Democratic town hall.
“One of the most distressing aspects of this campaign has been the language of Republican candidates, particularly their frontrunner that insults, demeans denigrates different people,” she said, referring to Donald Trump, who has called for ban on Muslim immigration. “He has cast a wide net. He started with Mexicans, he’s currently on Muslims. But I found it particularly harmful the way that he has talked about Muslims — American Muslims and Muslims around the world.”
Clinton was asked by a Muslim woman who had served in the military how she would make sure America was a safe place for the woman to raise her family.
“It’s not only shameful and contrary to our values to say that people of a certain religion should never come to this country or to claim that there are no real people of the Muslim faith who share our values and to have the kind of dismissive and insulting approach,” Clinton said, “It’s not only shameful and offensive, which it is, I think it’s dangerous.”
She said she has met with Muslim parents who say their children do not feel safe going to school. Clinton also argued the rhetoric made it harder to counter terror threats by straining the U.S.’s relationship with the Muslim community both here and abroad.
“It’s pretty hard to figure out how you are going to make coalition with the very nations you need if you spend your time insulting their religion,” she said.
She was really great on this question and issue.
I don’t have cable–and, therefore, can’t see this–but it sounds like she really did connect and gave a great response.
Great answer, and great passion. Nice job on this one Hillary.
Bernie’s been slamming Trump along similar lines about every chance he gets. Perhaps Hillary has been too, and this is just the first time it’s been reported, or at least the first time I’ve noticed.
Either way, she knocked it out of the park.
She did…she was pretty high energy all around tonight.
Personally, I think O’Malley did the best job in this sort of format. I think the makes a lot of sense and he does have one hell of a proven track record of getting things done…ahead of the curve.
But the analogy I have for him in this race, is its sort of like being an “A” student…in a class that includes Einstein. He is just outclassed by Hillary on nearly every issue…except the environment. And on that issue, I think he blows both Hillary and Sanders away. Sadly, that issue isn’t touching many hot buttons with Democrats this primary.
That’s why I think he’d be a great choice for Veep. Groom him to be Hillary’s or Bernie’s successor in 2024.