The director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Nihad Awad, holds a press conference on Monday to respond to the suggestion from the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that there should be a ‘total and complete shutdown’ on Muslims entering the US. Saying the idea ‘echoes the policies enacted by Nazi Germany against the Jews’, Awad states that it makes Trump sound more like the leader of a lynch mob than a candidate for high office and asks, ‘Have we learned anything from history?’

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