Just a few hours after he released a campaign statement calling for the "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States," Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said during a rally in South Carolina that "we have to look at mosques" and urged people who "see violations" to "report those and quickly."
"Don't worry about profiling," Trump told the crowd in Mount Pleasant. "I will defend you from profiling." The U.S. has to be "tough" when it comes to fighting terrorism, he said, as well as "smart" and "vigilant." "Yes, we have to look at mosques, and we have to respect mosques, but yes, we have to look at mosques," he said. "We have no choice. We have to see what's happening. Something is happening in there; man, there's anger, and we have to know about it.... We can't be people that knew what was going on two weeks ago in California, probably for months they knew what was going on and they didn't want to tell anybody."
Trump also said there are Muslims who "want to change your religion — I don't think so," and warned that if nothing is done, "it's gonna get worse and worse, you're going to have more World Trade Centers... we can be politically correct and we can be stupid, but it's gonna be worse and worse."
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