In Favour of Donald J. Trump, third of Americans want to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

More than a third of Americans want to ban Muslims from entering the United States, a new poll has found.
Nearly half of the US nationals surveyed want to keep a database of all Muslims already in the country, according to the poll by television network CBS news published Friday.
The poll follows Republican presidential ticket frontrunner Donald Trump’s suggestion Monday that the US bar Muslims from entry in response to a deadly gun attack in San Bernardino, California that is believed to have been inspired by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) armed group. Mr Trump's comment has prompted outrage from international media and governments but recent polling data shows that more Republicans support the prospective presidential nomineee than ever.

American Muslims, meanwhile, have drawn parallels between Mr Trump’s comments and a rising Adolph Hitler. Akbar Ahmed, the chair of Islamic Studies at American University, wrote on Thursday that the US is on “the road to Kristallnacht … this time with Muslims instead of Jews.”

The CBS poll of more than 1,000 Republican, Democratic and independent voters released Friday found that the vast majority of Americans feel Washington “should not ban” Muslims from entering the US. Among Democrats, 73 per cent opposed a ban, compared with 38 per cent of Republicans.

It appears that at least some Republicans feel that national safety considerations trump the US’s core values. Among Republicans, 54 per cent “favor” the ban, but 51 per cent feel it “goes against founding principles” of the US.