Discussion: Trump: Assimilation 'Close' To 'Nonexistent' Among American Muslims

This is such sheer unadulterated bigotry. The distressing thing is that an entire television network, a political party and 40 percent of voters are either tolerant or supportive. What a remarkably toxic person he is.

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Wow. This has become typical Trump. Completely baseless implication that the US Moslem population is filled with terrorists and uncooperative individuals. Even though he’s only a candidate, he gets enormous press attention and these statements, and others he’s made, are damaging–they can only serve to alienate our Moslem friends and neighbors.

The Moslem population here is far more assimilated than those in European countries.

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Great point! Displays the utter ignorance of Trump’s comments.

Nowadays, I feel the need to preface so many conversations with GOP/Trump supporters with the words "That’s an interesting theory, but here in the real world … "

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Not a lot of Jews celebrate Christmas, either.

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Nope, not assimilated at all at Dearborn Fordson High School.

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"There’s a hate that’s going on that’s unbelievable. Okay? Unbelievable. They don’t mind dying. That’s a hate that’s going on that’s unbelievable. And we allow it to happen.” (D. Trump)

True. There is an unbelievable hate going on right now. And many Dominionists are willing to die for their hate. And, yes, we as a nation (stupidly) allow it to happen. We need to smarten up.

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I wish a few assimilated Marines who are Moslem would show up and kick his racist ass.
This guy must have an impenetrable bubble around him that renders him impervious to any intrusion of reality.

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What nonsense. We have Muslim next door neighbors, yesterday I chuckled because Mr Neighbor apologized for not bringing both our trash bins back before I got outside to do it. Their kids, boys and girls 13 to 2, sometimes play in our yard, love the flowers in our garden and talk about school/tween culture or dance to our music when we are all on our front porch . We exchange greetings and introductions when either has guests and commiserate over contracts from mortgage refinance companies and politics. And we are a pair of 60 years old gay guys who have been together for over 30 years…and yes, even the kids know. They want to be more American than Trump with his likely offshore accounts, in fact if you challenge them, they will tell you they are Americans. I dare you to challenge them when we are around.

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Feel the meltdown!

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people say ‘ya can’t make this stuff up’… apparently they’re wrong…

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"They come, they don’t— for some reason there’s no real assimilation.”

I’d say that ‘some reason’ could be the stupid shit that dribbles out of your mouth every hour, you fucking asshole.

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He is just inventing his own facts,and making up correlations to the point of absurdity. It has to make even the most ardent Trump supporter think twice

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We need to start a TPM pool …
https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/thisdayintech/2010/02/easy_buster_cropped.jpg

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“Assimilation has been very hard,” Trump replied. “It’s almost, I won’t say nonexistent, but it gets to be pretty close. I’m talking about second and third generation. They come, they don’t— for some reason there’s no real assimilation.”

“Right,” said Hannity.

This is exactly what the Nazis said about German Jews, and we all know what transpired.
It’s still not too late for the GOP to step up and put an end to Trump’s candidacy. If they don’t, they are playing Russian Roulette with the future of this country, and probably the world.

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If his supporters were capable of “thinking” they wouldn’t be supporting him. They’ve handed over their heads to the head case.

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Shorter Trump: I want to drop out before the convention. Why doesn’t the RNC do something? I am totally out of depth here. I want to file Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection and start a different career.

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Trump …putting Onion writers to shame since Jun 16, 2015

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He really wants to talk about muslims not assimilating – what about those “real americans” – “sovereign citizens” who don’t even recognize the government of the Untied States? Some assimilation – they collect arsenals of assault weapons to use against us.

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It’s more like Russian Roulette with a double-barreled shotgun.

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