Rhetoric on Muslims

Clinton: Trump's rhetoric on Muslims 'shocking'

By Eliza Collins

Hillary Clinton condemned Donald Trump’s call to require Muslims to register in a database, calling his idea “shocking.”

“This is shocking rhetoric. It should be denounced by all seeking to lead this country. –H,” she tweeted, linking to a New York Times story quoting Trump as saying he'd "absolutely" require Muslims to do so.

In an interview with NBC news Thursday night, Trump was asked to clarify comments he had made earlier to Yahoo News saying that he would not rule out such a registry for Muslims if he were president.

“Should there be a database system that tracks the Muslims in this country?” an NBC reporter asked Trump at an event in Newton, Iowa.

“There should be a lot of systems. Beyond database, we should have a lot of systems. And today you can do it,” Trump said. “I would certainly implement that — absolutely.”

He said the database would stop people from coming into the United States illegally. And he could accomplish it with “good management procedures,” he said.

Clinton isn’t the only presidential candidate rebuking the comments.

On Friday morning, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley addressed Trump's comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe.

"When you hear people like Donald Trump talking about wanting to do ID cards based on religion, what the hell is that? I mean, how is that at all American?" he asked.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush also weighed in on CNBC's "Squawk Box" Friday, calling Trump's remarks “just wrong.”