Trump's controversial statement banning Muslims from US removed from website: report

As Donald Trump was elected president of the United States (US), a controversial policy statement banning Muslims from the US appears to have been removed, The Independent reported.

A page linking to his Dec 7, 2015 statement regarding a temporary and complete Muslim ban was removed as votes poured in for the billionaire businessman turned politico, the report said.

The page, which was available on the morning of the Nov 8 election according to online caches, now redirects to a page encouraging voters to donate to Trump's campaign.

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The Independent said it is not possible to say exactly what time the redirect added, but that a change had been made between the two times the website was last crawled by caches like 'Wayback Machine' which work by crawling websites intermittently and making copies of what they find there.

The Trump campaign could not be immediately contacted by The Independent for comments over the removal of pages.

Trump's campaign office in statement in Dec 2015 said, "Mr Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on."

The now president-elect had earlier also claimed that Muslim laws authorised "such atrocities as murder against non-believers who won’t convert, beheadings and more unthinkable acts that pose great harm to Americans, specially women".

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Arshad ,Canada

Nov 10, 2016 01:07pm

We shall see many such reversals from the Trump side. We Pakistani , are very familiar with"Political change of heart " from one our "Top" politician.

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Nov 10, 2016 01:49pm

A common trick employed by politicians to polarise the society for winning election. Slogans goes once purpose is served...Just like support for Kashmiries become a slogan in every election in Pakistan.

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Sultan Ahmed

Nov 10, 2016 02:06pm

Good step,has been taken to the right direction.

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Zulfiqar BAIG

Nov 10, 2016 02:32pm

If America wants to prosper, Donald Trump should change his policy statements and unite America and keep America away from enforcing its policies on other countries.

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Skeptic

Nov 10, 2016 03:03pm

You can remove contents from the website, but a leopard doesn't change its spots. I think there will be new laws and immigration policy enactments that will either exclude or discourage Muslims from coming to America - if not make it very difficult for Muslims to even travel to the US for studies, business, visits or immigrate. I already know several Muslim as well as non-Muslims, who've lived in the US for decades, but are now considering moving to Canada, Europe or their countries of origin.

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Arif Maroof

Nov 10, 2016 03:52pm

Showing signs of smart politician.

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Sympathiser

Nov 10, 2016 03:57pm

@SB and nothing happens..

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Awan

Nov 10, 2016 04:01pm

@Arshad ,Canada I am sorry for the people who never followed Trump and then became experts overnight. He already changed his stance on Muslims banning atleast three months before the election. The statement was infact removed before the elections but nobody noticed it before. Also Donald Trump himself stated that that some statements are Political rhetoric. All i know that he is sincere to Americans and that is all that matter in the end.

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kamal Pasha

Nov 10, 2016 04:57pm

All the negative statements by Trump were to get votes. He got what he wanted and now there will be no change in American policies at all. American government is very comfortable with present policies.

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betty snell

Nov 10, 2016 05:59pm

I find it interesting that after Trump's statements that the election was rigged no one is suggesting it was and he rigged it. After all, he was the only one talking about a rigged election and it would be easy to project what he was doing on Clinton. He appeared to be the only one with information.

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Asif

Nov 10, 2016 06:18pm

The problem is Trump says it publicaly and Clinton does it behind closed doors. It's on us who to trust. As far as policies are concerned it's not going to change for sure. We should not be worried about it.

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Khwarezmi

Nov 10, 2016 06:19pm

America's real face of wars, bombings, sanctions and hate for Muslims, 25% of the world population and 1/3rd of UN member states, has finally shown up. I am happy Donald Trump won so we don't have any illusions of who we are dealing with.

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M.Saeed

Nov 10, 2016 11:05pm

Trump must bring to order when he assumes office, the agency that removed his winning slogan.

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imtiaz faruqui

Nov 11, 2016 02:49am

Do not forget Trump will not be there forever , if he do some good things he may be re-elected and remembered or after 4 years he will be history. Trump has said he has lots of Muslims who are his good friends, he is only concerned about the radicals and he is right. I think the Hillary campain has over done it ,to scare people and vote for her. When he will enter White house ,he will be President Trump and will act like that.

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booooooooo

Nov 11, 2016 03:16am

@betty snell no, he was worried hillary would beat him. he would have used that if she did..

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