Profile radical US Muslims: Trump

Amid concerns over radicalisation following the California massacre, leading Republican presidential aspirant Donald Trump has said radical Muslims are posing a threat to the US as he backed tracking and profiling them for “real vigilance”.

“I want real vigilance, and whether it’s mosques or whatever it has to be, but a lot of bad things are happening,” Mr Trump told CBS News.

“We are having a problem with radicals in the Muslim group. Let’s not kid ourselves,” he said.

Mr Trump also stated that that he would go after the families and wives of terrorists and asserted that he does not believe in the innocent narrative of the sister of Syed Rizwan Farook, the Pakistani-origin US citizen who along with Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik massacred 14 people in California last week.

Asked about his position on tracking Muslims in America, Mr Trump said, “You have people that have to be tracked. If they’re Muslims, they’re Muslims. But you have people that have to be tracked. I use the word vigilance. We have to show vigilance. We have to have it. And if we don’t, we’re foolish people.”

Mr Trump criticised US President Barack Obama for not acknowledging the problem of “radical Islamic terrorism”.

“We’re being led by people that don’t know what is happening. When you have President Obama talking about global warming is our biggest problem, we have a President that is just not with it at all,” the leading Republican presidential candidate said.