'Absolutely no choice' but to close mosques in US: Trump

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump says the United States would have "absolutely no choice" but to close down some mosques where "some bad things are happening," in the wake of last week's terror attacks in Paris.

"Nobody wants to shut down religion institutions or anything, but you understand it." Trump told Fox News on Tuesday night. "A lot of people understand it. We’re going to have no choice."

"Some really bad things are happening and they’re happening fast," added the Republican frontrunner, known for his often controversial remarks.

On Monday, Trump said he would "strongly consider" closing mosques as part of a response to the Friday night attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 and injured more than 350 more.

Daesh (ISIL) terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, have claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks in France. They now control parts of Syria and Iraq.

However, some independent American analysts like former White House official Paul Craig Roberts say the United States and NATO actually orchestrated the Paris attacks as a “false flag” to enter the Syrian war in order to counter Russia, which has been conducting air strikes in Syria against ISIL terrorists since September 30.

Russian fighter jets have also attacked the CIA-trained militants fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to US officials.

“This was a false flag attack,” Roberts, a former assistant secretary of the US treasury, told Press TV on Monday. “It does not serve ISIL, but it does serve the Western political establishment.”

In his interview with Fox News, Trump again vowed to "blast the hell out of ISIS" in the wake of the Paris attacks.

"I’d get everybody together—this includes Russia—and I’ve been right about that too."Trump said. “Now, all of a sudden [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s going wild with bombing ISIS, and that’s a good thing, not a bad thing. Who needs to take the credit? Let him have some credit."

Trump not qualified to become president

Commenting to Press TV on Tuesday, American political analyst Mark Glenn said Trump is a hypocrite, who is not qualified to become the president of the United States as his remarks about Muslims show he plans to break the first amendment of the US constitution.

If elected as president, Trump “has to swear an oath to defend the Constitution. Part of that Constitution is the first amendment which prohibits the federal government from doing exactly what Donald Trump is talking about doing which is to limit the expression of someone’s religion,” Glenn said.

“What he’s saying is that as president he would absolutely abrogate the very same constitution which he would be swearing to uphold, which means by definition that he’s a fraud and he is a liar, he’s not qualified to become president,” he added.

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