{"id":48272,"date":"2015-10-22T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=48272"},"modified":"2015-10-22T12:25:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T16:25:21","slug":"trump-id-close-down-some-mosques-i-think-thats-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2015\/10\/trump-id-close-down-some-mosques-i-think-thats-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: I&#8217;d close down some mosques, &#8220;I think that&#8217;s great&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2015\/09\/Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore_3.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-47846\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2015\/09\/Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore_3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore_3\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is what we have come to.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2015\/10\/21\/donald-trump-says-he-would-consider-closing-down-some-mosques-in-the-u-s\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>The Washington Post:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Wednesday\u00a0he would be willing to close\u00a0some mosques within the United States in order to fight the Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">In an interview on Fox Business, Stuart Varney asked Trump whether, if elected president, would take similar action as the British government, which has revoked the passports of people of some and closed mosques.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">\u201cI would do that, absolutely, I think it\u2019s great,\u201d Trump responded. \u201cIf you go out, you go fight for ISIS, you can\u2019t come back. Why can\u2019t you do it? You can do it here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">Varney asked, \u201cCan you close a mosque? I mean, we do have religious freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">\u201cWell I don\u2019t know,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI mean, I haven\u2019t heard about the closing of the mosque. It depends, if the mosque is, you know, loaded for bear, I don\u2019t know. You\u2019re going to have to certainly look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">\u201cBut I can tell you one thing,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIf somebody goes over and they want to fight for ISIS, they wouldn\u2019t be coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2015\/10\/21\/donald-trump-says-he-would-consider-closing-down-some-mosques-in-the-u-s\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what we have come to. From The Washington Post:\u00a0 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Wednesday\u00a0he would be willing to close\u00a0some mosques within the United States in order to fight the Islamic State. 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