President Obama said Friday that the proposal to deport Muslims who support Shariah law is “repugnant,” taking aim at an idea that Donald Trump surrogate Newt Gingrich put forward this week after the latest terror attack in France.
“The very suggestion” that all Muslims be “deported or jailed… is repugnant and affront to everything we stand for as Americans,” Obama said, repeating his total opposition to such ideas.
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