Trump on Islam: ‘There’s Something Nasty Coming Out Of There’ (VIDEO)

In this Oct. 26, 2015, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles as he receives applause after speaking at a town hall meeting at Atkinson Country Club in Atkinson, N.H. Trump and the other Republ... In this Oct. 26, 2015, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles as he receives applause after speaking at a town hall meeting at Atkinson Country Club in Atkinson, N.H. Trump and the other Republican president candidates get ready for the third GOP on Oct. 28, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter) MORE LESS
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Asked on Morning Joe if he believed Islam was an inherently violent religion, Donald Trump refused to answer the question directly, but said, “There’s something nasty coming out of there.”

MSNBC political analyst John Heilemann asked Trump, who called onto Morning Joe Monday via telephone, whether Islam was “an inherently peaceful religion … that’s been perverted by some” or a “an inherently violent religion.”

Trump said he didn’t “know that that question can be answered.”

“It could be answered two ways. It could be answered both ways. But there’s something going on there,” Trump said. “There’s a lot of hatred coming out of at least a big part of it. You see the hatred. We see it every day. You see it, whether it’s in Paris, or whether it’s the World Trade Center …”

In the wake of Paris terrorist attacks, Trump has floated creating a database for Muslim Americans.

“There’s something nasty coming out of there,” Trump said Monday.

Watch the video below, at about 8:15 in:

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  1. You’d know, Donald. The only thing that ever comes out of you is “something nasty.”

    May the karmic payback be as swift, direct, brutal and painful as deserved.

  2. Trump is out to prove that there is no consequence for being a bigot. He’s exposing America for the country that it is, not the country that it should be.

    Thank you Donald

  3. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Thus spake Imaginathrustra…

  4. There’s something nasty coming out of conservative Christians, the well from which domestic terrorists spring.

  5. Alternate headline: "Nasty man Trump accuses others of being nasty."

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