{"id":245569,"date":"2016-05-24T08:06:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T08:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cameron-id-meet-trump-but-his-muslim-comments-are-dangerous\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T21:12:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T21:12:37","slug":"cameron-id-meet-trump-but-his-muslim-comments-are-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/cameron-id-meet-trump-but-his-muslim-comments-are-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron: \u2018I\u2019d meet Trump, but his Muslim comments are dangerous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister David Cameron says he would be happy to meet presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump despite again criticising the tycoon\u2019s proposed travel ban on Muslims, this time labelling the policy \u201cdangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Cameron last year referred to Trump\u2019s plans to temporarily stop Muslims entering the US as \u201c<em>divisive, stupid and wrong<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump fired back, saying he would probably not have a \u201cgood relationship\u201d with Cameron.<\/p>\n<p>It now appears both sides are backing away from the standoff.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron told ITV on Sunday he would meet Trump if he came to Britain before the US election, saying he believed in maintaining the much vaunted \u2018special relationship\u2019 between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAmerican presidential candidates have made a habit of coming through the UK, and so if that happens I\u2019d be very happy to [meet him],\u201d<\/em> Cameron said.<\/p>\n<p>But he reiterated his concerns over Trump\u2019s temporary travel ban on Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I don\u2019t withdraw in any way what I said about the policy of not letting Muslims into America. I do think that is wrong and divisive<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>[It\u2019s] a very dangerous thing to say<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to demonstrate that what we\u2019re up against here is a very small minority of a minority, Islamic extremists, that want to divide our societies, and we have got to explain that there are billions of people in our world who are devout Muslims but who believe in liberal democracy and all the things we believe in.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/46A8u1B3F3A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Trump backtracked on his criticism of Cameron, saying he in fact envisioned having a \u201c<em>good relationship<\/em>\u201d with him.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Trump said Cameron had invited him to London, but a spokesperson for Number 10 told the Independent:\u00a0<em>\u201cGiven the parties have yet to choose their nominees, there are no confirmed dates for this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/344073-cameron-trump-muslim-dangerous\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister David Cameron says he would be happy to meet presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump despite again criticising the tycoon\u2019s proposed travel ban on Muslims, this time labelling the policy \u201cdangerous.\u201d Cameron last year referred to Trump\u2019s plans to temporarily stop Muslims entering the US as \u201cdivisive, stupid and wrong.\u201d Trump fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}