Advisers and family members stressed over and over to Mr. Trump that he was selecting a running mate to unite the Republican Party, not a new best friend.
.. Mr. Pence is viewed as a sturdy and dependable politician by Republicans in Indiana and Washington, and chided Mr. Trump for his proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States, calling it “offensive and unconstitutional” in a Twitter post in December.
Killing Homosexuals Is Not ISIS Law, It Is Muslim Law
Since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, there has been no shortage of praise for Ayatollah Ali Sistani, whom the Bush administration frequently lauded as a “moderate” and a supporter of “democracy.”
.. As I have previously recounted, when asked, “What is [Islam’s] judgment on sodomy and lesbianism?” Sistani replied: “Forbidden. Those involved in the act should be punished. In fact, sodomites should be killed in the worst manner possible.” Yup, let it sink in: “killed in the worst manner possible.”
.. There absolutely should be severe restrictions on immigration from countries, regions, and communities (e.g., in Europe) in which sharia standards are de jure or de facto imposed.
Donald Trump Steps on his own Inflamatory Speech
During his speech, Trump gave the false impression that immigrants who enter the United States as refugees and asylum seekers aren’t subject to background checks. Without citing any convincing evidence, he accused Clinton of supporting “policies that bring the threat of radical Islam into America, and allow it to grow overseas.” He reaffirmed his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, which is popular among Republican voters, and he suggested that Muslim communities in this country need to do more to coöperate with law enforcement and turn in “the bad guys,” claiming, again without any basis, that “they do know where they are.”
.. Although he was speaking from a teleprompter, the tone in which he delivered his address was so disdainful that it was hard to concentrate on the actual words.
.. In a post on Sunday, my colleague David Remnick lamented the “velocity, vapidity, and sheer ugliness” of Trump’s initial response to the Orlando tragedy: a series of tweets drawing attention to himself and seeking to build capital from the attack.
.. But even in a party that has cynically exploited voters’ fears for decades, there is rising concern about where Trump is going. On Monday, he came close to suggesting that a President who oversaw the killing of Osama bin Laden, who has greatly expanded the use of drone strikes against targets in foreign countries, and whose approval rating recently edged above fifty per cent, is a closet Islamist sympathizer.
Video: Religious Liberty Includes Muslims Too
Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore knocks it out of the park when a fellow pastor asks him why on earth Christians should not oppose letting Muslims build mosques. It’s only a 2 1/2 minute clip, but it’s astonishing. The reader who sent that to me, a Catholic, writes:
This is amazing!. Why don’t more Christians—including Catholic bishops—learn how to speak this way?
I don’t fully agree with Moore on immigration, but he really is becoming thespokesman for many of us conservative, orthodox Christians in America. I can’t think of a single other figure from any tradition who comes close.