Muslim group: Trump would fail his own ideological test

Muslim group: Trump would fail his own ideological test: Donald Trump would not pass his own ideological test aimed at protecting the United States from radical Islam, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in response to the GOP nominee's speech Monday. The Muslim group, a constant critic of Trump's bigotry against American Muslims, such as his ban on all Muslims entering the U.S. and his ongoing feud with a Muslim Gold Star family, said in a statement that American values include the right to hold unpopular or non-majority opinions. Trump himself would likely not gain entry into the United States if tested for basic American values of tolerance and pluralism, given that his proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States and his views on Latinos are in complete contradiction to America's traditions of ethnic diversity and religious freedom, said CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw. At a campaign event Monday in Youngstown, Ohio, Trump announced a series of counter-terrorism strategies to combat radical Islam, including an ideological screening test to evaluate immigrants' attitudes toward American values.