Trump comes under fire for proposing Muslim database in US

US presidential candidate Jeb Bush and American community leaders have denounced a plan by Donald Trump to establish IDs and a database to track Muslims in the United States, comparing it to post-1933 Nazi Germany.

The Republican frontrunner on Thursday said he would be open to having a “Muslim database” in America for security reasons, two days after he said that the US would have "absolutely no choice" but to close down some mosques.

In an interview on CNBC on Thursday night, Bush slammed Trump for making controversial remarks.

"You talk about internment, you talk about closing mosques, you talk about registering people — that's just wrong," the former Florida governor said.

"It's not a question of toughness. It's manipulating people's angst and their fears. That's not strength; that's weakness," Bush added.

On Thursday night, Trump doubled down on his previous remarks when asked by NBC News if he would establish a database to track Muslims.

“I would certainly implement that, absolutely,” the billionaire businessman said.

Asked whether Muslims would be legally required to sign up for such a database, he said, “They have to be — they have to be.”

 “[The database] would stop people from coming in illegally. We have to stop people from coming into our country illegally,” Tump added.

 When asked how his plan differed from prewar Nazi Germany, the Republican frontrunner responded, "You tell me."

Trump's comments came in the wake of Paris attacks that left at least 129 people dead and hundreds more injured on Friday night.

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.

Commenting on Trump’s remarks, Ibrahim Hooper, national spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told NBC News on Thursday night, "We're kind of at a loss for words."

"What else can you compare this to except to prewar Nazi Germany?" Hooper asked. "There's no other comparison, and [Trump] seems to think that's perfectly OK."

Rabbi Jack Moline, executive director of the nonprofit Interfaith Alliance, also made a similar observation.

"My father was in World War II, and he fought to preserve America against what the Nazis were doing," Moline told NBC News. "This is exactly why there is an America, to not be like that," he said.

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