Donald Trump sweeps 5 States in ‘Acela Corridor’ primaries. Exit polls show continued strong support for temporary ban on Muslim immigration.
This consistent support for a temporary ban on allowing non-citizen Muslims into the United States is one of the driving forces behind Trump’s candidacy. It doesn’t seem to receive a great deal of attention above the fold right now, but the perception of Trump as a hard-nosed realist who will push this policy through when in office may help explain his recent resurgence in the GOP race.
According to exit polls conducted Tuesday by CBS News, 71% of Pennsylvania Republicans support Trump’s proposed temporary ban (and kudos to CBS for clearly describing it as a “temporary” ban on their graphic). This is in keeping with early primary state exit polls showing consistent GOP support at or above 60% in most states, almost 80% in Alabama and Arkansas, and nearly 75% in South Carolina and Tennessee.
The idea has growing support with the general populace as well. A YouGov/Huffington Post poll from mid-March found that a majority — 51 percent— of Americans support the temporary ban, up from 45 percent in December. Support among Independent voters for the “Muslim ban” has sharply increased to match the Republican stats: the same March HuffPo poll shows 62% of Independents in favor, up from only 42% in December. Such strong support among Independents for the temporary Muslim ban could be a factor in the general election in November.
Of course, there is the predicable outcry from Islamic grievance groups:
“When you open the door to defining what religion isn’t sufficiently American, does anyone think it’ll stop with Muslims?” says Haroon Moghul, a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. [For the backstory on Haroon Moghul, see here.]
Actually, yes, we do think it would stop with Muslims, as there is really only one religion anyone can think of which continues to prove itself unable to assimilate into American and other Western cultures and societies, and which generates more than its share of terrorists and threats to American and Western lives and liberty.
Likewise, we think it would be temporary. Just as our immigration policies towards Germans relaxed after we defeated the Nazis in 1945, so decisive action now should be undertaken to lead to victory in the global war against Islamic Jihad. For should the United States in January 2017 find itself emerging out from under the cloud of Islamophilia and Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi and Turkish influence of the Obama/Clinton years, we might even dare to hope for a common sense set of rigorous immigration policies which would be able to accurately ascertain the varieties of jihadist alliances, proto-extremists, shariah sympathizers, and Islamic operatives and keep them out, while providing opportunities to those Muslims who explicitly disavow jihad, shariah law, and Islamic supremacism, in favor of embracing the liberties and responsibilities of the American Way of Life.
Here’s hoping that these strong poll numbers in favor of the temporary ban on Muslim immigration continue to grow, and that the Muslim immigration ban would be instituted on Day One by the new US President as a prudent and realistic national security measure, and that this would be one of many components, including vigorous enforcement of FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act), of a general policy stance I call “Sandboxing Islam.”
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Ralph Sidway is an Orthodox Christian researcher and writer, and author of Facing Islam: What the Ancient Church has to say about the Religion of Muhammad. He operates the Facing Islam blog.
JawsV says
Count me in. It’s the major reason I’m a Trump supporter – keep out the Mohammedans before we become Europe.
Anna Bulat says
Wouldn’t let me like your comment for some reason but, I am with you 100%!!! If anyone gives you “bull” about having it any other way or you get called “racist” or whatnot, show them this video!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q86qbKEsVE #TRUMP2016
JawsV says
I watched the video. Yeah, that’s exactly what’s happening, Trump gets it.
I see that the Likes/Dislikes have been removed. They didn’t work.
paul says
Its started when they wanted a mosque beside one of his buildings. Guess he got a good taste of being told to “screw off” by CAIR and did not like it.
I am sure his building is about worthless now.
Too bad.
paul says
He should have talked about deporting the 200,000 coming from the UN this year.
dumbledoresarmy says
I get the feeling that some kind of dam has broken.
Even if Trump doesn’t get the Presidency, the idea that hey, we don’t HAVE to let the Mohammedans in through the gates has been lodged in people’s brains, like a burr.
Nobody else dared to say it. He said it, and now it’s out there, and I see, in comments streams at places like the Daily Mail, his name turning up, *precisely* because of that one idea – “let’s just stop the Mohammedans coming in”. I see British people and European people discussing it. They *like* the idea. Lots of them like it.
Myself I hope he *does* get in and that he follows through: that he really *does* harden up the border with Mexico, and slap a ten-year flat ban on all entry of identifiable Mohammedans into the USA. And I suspect that Iran and Pakistan might be in for a series of sudden and unexpected and very nasty surprises of some kind. Not to mention the Abominable House of Saud. And Turkey.
(BTW, someone needs to suggest to Trump that rooting out a Triffid called “Fethullah Gulen” root and branch, and packing it off back to Turkey with a kick up the backside, would be an excellent idea).
ICH says
I HOPE !!! I truly hope that Trump is the person that will
put a stop to the worldwide madness of accepting and
making excuses for terrorism just because its rooted
in some crazy religion.
From Canada…………….GOD BLESS AMERICA !!
Christianblood says
ICH posted
(…Trump is the person that will put a stop to the worldwide madness of accepting and
making excuses for terrorism just because its rooted in some crazy religion…)
Very true indeed! I wish him success!
Dave says
Contrast Trumps stand vs Hillary whose right hand women Huma Abedin is intimately tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. I am hoping Trump hammers this point home
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259805/huma-abedin-security-breach-hillary-still-hiding-frontpagemagcom
People I know are not aware of Huma and her connections, they are shocked, mouths open when they hear about her.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Wow-I LOVE all the Canadian posts here, rooting for our next President!
You see? Trump is restoring our world leadership even BEFORE his election! When I heard his foreign policy speech today, I had tears in my eyes.
To think of our Military being freed from the demon in the WH! To think of how it’ll be when he gives his press conference from the Oval Office (after it’s been fumigated and de-loused after Zero’s presence there}, when he says: ‘Today I ordered all branches of our Military to strike and OBLITERATE any and all strongholds of ISIS, and any other violent islamic terrorists, in many areas of our world’. I mean: Will we be dancing in the streets, or what?
linnte says
Par Tay!!!!! Woooohoooo!
paul says
Obola is going to be pissed off. Maybe he can be arrested for treason?
Hope says
Yes! Just seeing Obama and his rabid wife vacating the WH will be definite cause for dancing in the streets! And watching Trump take on ISIS and CAIR, put a stop to unchecked Muslim immigration, and build that wall, will be a dream come true.
paul says
watch what they take…
paul says
Huma is a lover, though. Like Reggie love, but for the other sicko
ICH says
HEY !!! NEW like boxes !!!
AWESOME ROBERT !!!!!
Angemon says
Don’t forget marc, who tirelessly works behind the scenes.
Magali Marc says
They dont’t work though.
Can’t like anything.
grace says
They don’t work for me either. But I look fd to using them and supporting all the people who see islam for the insideous threat that it is.
ICH says
Canadian here too 🙂
I hope Trump wins too.
I am so tired of the excuses for Islam
paul says
Its tough when they rape and kill, but now they choke school kids with chains. The schoolboars at the board says its all unsubstantiated, like the rape gangs. Political correct cowards sacrificing our kids for their agenda, which replacing our culture with that one. google that one!
In the US, these rapists are being welcomed into the women’s restrooms. I am sure the little girls will understand what will happen to them?
paul says
http://pamelageller.com/2016/04/chool-children-choked-by-migrant-children.html/
Angemon says
The GOP have no one to blame for Trump but themselves. They sided with the Democrats in issues like islam, branding critics of islam as “islamophobes” or “racists”. They are out of touch with the average American, and Trump capitalizes on that.
Next time, try being an actual alternative to Democrats instead of “Democrats Lite with limp-wrist border controls and no notion of social media”
underbed cat says
The politician and leaders were getting advice from the mb opts, and ME influence, we the public who had curiosity, could find our answers from creditable sources on the internet…that have become experts in sharia law, organization which support jihad, history and hadiths, history of the MB, the curious public, found a world hidden from general view connected in reality. We have all faced being labeled racist, what we found was doctrine and evidence, and most importantly the misdirection or deception of the intent.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
True: It’s the ‘republicans’ who created the vacuum.
But I must say: I’m educated every day, watching the political elites deride, belittle, and diss Mr. Trump. What does that show you but that the dream of our Founders-the citizen representative-had fallen into desuetude?
But Trump and we-the-people, have resurrected it. That shows the original magnificence of America as she was founded. We have indeed been founded on Judeo-Christian bedrock. We had very nearly lost that. God willing, Trump and his electorate-all of us-will once more clothe it in flesh and blood.
God Save These United States-
linnte says
IN JESUS NAME! AMEN!
paul says
Obama and the politically corrects made Trump possible. Imagine, being sued for refusing a gay wedding cake… The gays never asked a single muslim baker, btw. We need to go after those cities and the council pinheads for THAT one!
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
71% of PA GOP voters support temporary ban on Muslim immigration.
My only problem with this poll, and Trump’s common sense statement, is the notion of *temporary*. But we have to start somewhere. But beware truth telling: since he made the statement, he’s been repeatedly quoted as favoring a *permanent* ban on Moslem immigration, as if that were somehow a rhetorical sin. This happens regularly on the two Fox RINO channels, which sell themselves as pro-freedom. I’m sure Trump has taken not of what’s been done with his statement, both by the anti-freedom news entertainers and his poll ratings.
Keep in mind that Homeland Security allowed the San Bernadino mass murderer in from Saudi Arabia despite her public statements to kill Infidels out of respect for her privacy. These are dark and confused times.
JawsV says
Right – should be permanent, not temporary. It’s the only way to stop the invasion.
dumbledoresarmy says
Get him in.
But make sure he knows from all of you that *the* thing you really like the idea of is the idea of a ban on Mohammedan entry into the USA. Let him know that loud and clear. And let all your *other* politicians know that, loud and clear.
And once you *get* that ban… push hard to make it PERMANENT.
One thing at a time.
Incremental gain.
Jay Boo says
Mark your calendar
(President Obama to speak at RUTGERS in — 2 weeks)
Expect:
Promotion of RESPECT for Islam.
Criticism of Donald Trump
Now we know why Rutgers promoted a — Jesus Dartboard.
All of the nasty pieces of the POS Obama agenda are falling in place.
Burn Qur’ans
BURN BABY BURN
http://abc7ny.com/education/rutgers-students-upset-over-commencement-ticket-limit/1310050/
underbed cat says
Agree….he knows. I think that the economy is really not why people are voting so strongly for Trump. It is national security. This election is a tipping point to our future. I do hope he will never allow resolution 1618 slander, sharia speech laws) to be implemented and criminalized factual speech.
Andy says
What’s the point in having a robust economy if one can’t go anywhere by car, bus, train or plane, day or night, without the fear of being blown into bits because some book says annihilate every one who doesn’t believe in the book?
Jay Boo says
Hillary versus Trump
— Expect Hillary to pull out her full deck of Race Card bait.
— Expect Muslims to instigate race divisions
— Partially tax funded NPR (up to 25% including write offs) will offer itself as a covert Hillary Super PAC subverting campaign finance laws.
Jay Boo says
How can the folks at NPR dare get shamelessly indignant at Trump’s comments and yet have the unmitigated audacity to fawn over a nasty and hateful POS like Hillary.
Don McKellar says
“…and kudos to CBS for clearly describing it as a “temporary” ban on their graphic”
Well, this is the REAL news story here. The news story that actually accurately describes Trump’s proposals is the news story!
linnte says
I agree! It’s phenomenal! Maybe CBS is beginning to think Trump just might be our next Prez and is starting to kowtow to keep Trump from saying harsh words against them? Hahahaha!
linnte says
My reason to vote Trump is, what the HECK, what harm can already be done? If he screws it up, it’s four years down the tubes. I don’t really trust my own judgement though as I thought Obama would be excellent. What a terrible mistake he is, in more ways than one. I don’t think I have ever been so let down by a man before ever!
Trump is like a clean slate, unadulterated from politics. Stopping illegal aliens is a major issue. They are not helping our economy for sure. Time will tell. It’s Hillary who needs to be STOPPED.
Hope says
linnte, I too voted twice for Obama. For that, I am ashamed and seriously have decided to spend the rest of my life trying to make up for it, trying to help save this country-we all do what we can, right?
This whole election is about open borders, nothing more. Republicans pretend they want to stop illegal immigration so they can get elected. But once they get to Washington, they do the bidding of the rich and powerful who funded their campaigns. The rich and powerful want that border kept open for the CHEAP LABOR, plain and simple.
Democrats pretend to be compassionate humanitarians, but they support illegal immigration for the votes. Granted, illegals cannot vote, but amnesty is always a possibility and if illegals are granted citizenship it means MILLIONS OF VOTES for Democrats. It’s a power grab.
So, the border stays open and the American schmuck taxpayer picks up the tab for the whole thing. This is why both sides want to stop Trump at all costs. If that wall goes up, those with the money and the power will lose big.
linnte says
I agree Hope! But I would rather have millions of Mexicans here illegal or no, than one single Muslim refugee. Trump has to win!
Hope says
Agreed!
duh_swami says
Trump or Hillary…How hard do you have to think about that, it’s a no brainer ain’t it?
Ren says
I guess liberals and apologists of islam+muslims can’t go against the will of the people HUH!
Guest says
Trump doesn’t have a plan for anything! How does he plan to build a wall? How will he create jobs? How will he ban Muslims? If you were an actual politician you would see he doesn’t have a plan and people only like home because he’s an entertainer and he’s a hothead, not a good president.
Cruz is mindful, logical, and has plans. Vote for Cruz!
JawsV says
Nope, Trump.
underbed cat says
Interesting how terrorists get released, you can see the length the justice dept goes to prosecute Trump, especially during an election, but previous election they were silent,but never gets around to the important national defense issues of the day, Saudi Arabia gets a quick visit, France did not even receive the attention of Prince within the first days, fact gets denied and freedom of speech hangs in the balance. Sharia law governments were established in Iraq and Afghanistan after years of loosing many , aiding with hugh sums cash. The infiltration becomes so apparent you have to wonder….isn’t anyone curious enough to see….meanwhile threats pile up.
Marcel Berube says
Once elected , I hope Trump will put pressure on Canada to follow same politics.
Michael Copeland says
Thank you, Mr. Sidway, for this article.
One caution applies, though, if it may be sounded.
You recommend providing opportunities to those muslims who are “in favor of embracing the liberties and responsibilities of the American Way of Life”. These are those who
“explicitly disavow jihad, shariah law, and Islamic supremacism…”
There is a drawback: muslims who explicitly disavow jihad and shariah law are no longer muslim: they are apostates.
“Sharia is Islam, to be clear: there is no difference between Islam and Sharia”,
explains Fouad Belkacem of Sharia4Belgium.
Apostates are to be killed by any passing muslim. The killing, in Sharia law, is penalty-free “since it is killing someone who deserves to die”.
The instructions of Islam, known as “the Path” (Sharia) do not permit adoption of the American way of life. One book fits all.
heidi says
this was my understanding as well, and yet i still hear people referring to themselves as muslims, but moderate or peaceful and working to change the definitions, but is this even possible?
linnte says
It isn’t possible according to the Qur’an, which is why any person who has read that vile tome doesn’t TRUST any Muslim. How can we, when they are commanded to kill Infidels?
Atheist kaffur says
Trump will win the election against Hillary. He will fan the flames of the truth. Bingazi, server and govt files, Money from Saudi Arabia to the Clinton Foundation etc etc etc.
Mr. Trump was asked if he was going to be more Presidential. His response was “not yet”. I started to laugh. I’m sure he will put on a good show tearing down Hillary
linnte says
Athiest, simply because Trump knew what it meant by “being more Presidential” proves he is a smart cookie! He is using this time now, when he has all the freedom to speak as he wants, to get into office. Then his words will become more selective and he KNOWS this has to happen. But that doesn’t mean his heartfelt ideas will change. Trump in 1016!
Guest says
Trump is a business man not a politician. He may keep out ISIS, but Cruz will destroy ISIS… And the Taliban… And every radical Muslim that wants to destroy Western civilization. Which is all of them.
Vote for Cruz. He’ll win the second ballot!
linnte says
Trump hasn’t chosen his Vice candidate yet. Maybe it should be Cruz?
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
That would be the dream ticket Linnte.
I don’t doubt Trump will ask. I hope Cruz will assent.
I’m supporting Trump but I like Cruz too. I admire what he did previously in the Senate. I don’t see the need for us on the Right to demonize our fellow Conservatives. I mean: It’s bad enough we’ve got REAL demons in our midst, aka ‘muslims’!
linnte says
Agreed!
Guest says
Cruz is a fighter. He won’t budge, nor give in to the Liberals or Democrats no matter what! He has the conviction and the plan! He fought for our first and second amendment rights in Texas. Thanks to him we still have our guns and he will do more as president!
Vote for Cruz
D says
The Republicans must win this Election! ISIS is coming and the Deocrats will open the door and let them in with a smile. (What I am trying to say is that the democrats are useless in handling terrorist)
Havoc says
Temporary ban? How about ‘permanent’ … as in ‘forever’?
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No Muslims. No Mosques.
RattyRat says
Man, Finally someone with some common sense. The Muslim/Islamic infiltrator has got to go!
Demsci says
That it looks like 51 % of Republican and 62 % of Independent voters like the idea of a temporary ban for Muslims, and the augmenting news from Dumbledoresarmy I too find unbelievable great news.
I remember that in 2002 Pim Fortuyn, a very popular politician then, already proposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigration in my country, Holland. He said: We should not “Mop with the tap on”.
He was murdered in that year, just before the elections, that he probably would have won. His funeral was a huge event and his death was for me one of those great shocks (like the death of Lady Di).
Trump’s character and “foulmouthing of political Opponents and Muslims”done to him, reminds me of Pim Fortuyn.
And I concur that it Muslims by and large show great reluctance to integrate. I often enough noticed them saying not to want to be integrated and implicitly declaring loyalty to foreign Islamic enemies, like their home-countries or Iran, and contempt for America and the Democratic system.\
And very few indeed are those Muslims who declare in favor of this system and it’s approx. 34 core-nations. At best Muslims en masse plead neutrality.
It is my great hope this one issue makes the difference in the election. Even with Cruz, who would never dare go as far as Trump on this issue and who is lagging too far anyway, Then of course with Clinton!
Mitch says
The exit opinions on this topic are good news. Not likely that Trump will ban Muslim immigrants from the U.S., though. Here are the two main reasons I believe this will be so:
1. Two years ago Trump was funding gang of eight immigration reform/amnesty. This was consistent with his lifetime of heavy support for the Left. A tiger does not change his stripes; especially a 70 year old one.
Would Trump make total asses of his supporters in order to get elected? Art of the Deal, baby.
2. Polls show Trump losing badly to Hillary in the general. So he’ll probably not get the opportunity to turn on his worshippers.
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A wall on the southern border would be a good thing but the real bulwark against Jihad is our Constitution. When his time frees up come November — Trump should read it.
heidi says
as a businessman, Trump made many donations to support his business interests. As POTUS, he pledges to support his country and refuses to be bought by anyone to do otherwise:
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/04/27/watch-donald-trump-gives-foreign-policy-speech-washington-d-c/
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
You’re right Heidi.
I have to laugh at all the polls that supposedly show Killary kicking Trump’s hindquarters. Good luck with that.
He already shut her down-completely-a few weeks ago. And he didn’t even have to go toe-to-toe. He simply tweeted the truth about her attack-dog stance v Bill’s many victims, ending with ‘Be careful Hillary’.
That was that.
No: When he does finally meet Killary in the debates, he’ll not only cream her. I think he’ll stretch her flat out on the floor. But he won’t have to touch her (eyuw). She’ll be so flummoxed that someone tells her the brutal truth about herself that she’ll likely have an MI.
Not that I’m hoping…
heidi says
or she’ll just another of her Huma hairball coughing fits:
Jkissy says
The heck, let them go to Iran, Dubai, Pakistan etc. There is heaven there for them.
underbed cat says
Yeah!
Guest says
It’s not over for Cruz. If all primaries end and no candidate has 1237 required delegates there will be a shorter second primary involving national delegates. Reason why Kasicj hasn’t dropped out (though I desperately wish he did) Cruz can win the second ballot. He can destroy ISIS. He plans to carpet bomb them.
Please for the good of the country and possibly the world! Vote for Ted Cruz.
heidi says
temporary muslim ban is a good place to start, but with knowledge that 2nd, 3rd, generation muslims become even more devout or radical followers of the violent, oppressive islamic doctrines, not sure if muslims can ever be trusted not to follow the directives of their faith. Seems like just a numbers game for domination.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Hahahahahaha Heidi! ‘Huma hairball’, forsooth!
As if this woman wasn’t already sufficiently evil: She also engages in a perverted ‘relationship’ with her very own muslima, Huma!
Truly: I don’t know who’s worse-her, or her ‘husband’, the debauched geriatric Bill. They are, however, perfect for each other.
Armand says
How would the ‘christians’ feel if they were banned from muslim countries?
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
No need to speculate about that Armand. Christians-and all the other faith communities but islam-ARE ‘banned from muslim countries’!
They are banned from equal participation in muslim socieity. They are dhimmis. You know: subjected to extortion (aka ‘jizya’); forbidden to worship; and completely insecure in their property and selves.
heidi says
there is christian genocide going on in muslim countries, beheadings, crucifixions, rape, torture, murder are daily activities against all non muslim minorities,Jews, Yazidi’s as well, and why Trump and a majority of others in this country have a problem with bringing unvetted practitioners of an oppressive totalitarian islamic ideology, violently enforced with sharia law, into this country. There are some persecuted Christians which may indeed need our help, but under Obama, 98% of the “refugees” brought in are muslim–sounds kinda like giving respite to Nazi’s fleeing a bombed out Berlin to me.
linnte says
How about you go to Saudi Arabia or Iran and tell them you are Christian? Wear a cross on your neck and carry a Bible. Try to convert a few Muslims then come back and tell us what happened? I would be interested in what happens! (Hahahahahahahahahah)!
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Excellent Linnte! Great idea!
However: Our friend Armand would not be able to ‘come back and tell us what happened.’ No. That wouldn’t work out for him.
linnte says
Oh I so KNOW he wouldn’t be able to come back cuz he’d be dead! Hense, my laughter and also, his non response! How are you Kathy?