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UK lawmakers slam Trump, but most oppose banning him
JILL LAWLESS British Prime Minister David Cameron delivers a press statement during his visit at a party conven- ported a ban.
Associated Press tion of the Christian Social Union Party, CSU, in Wildbach Kreuth, southern Germany. Cameron has “This is a man who is ex-
LONDON (AP) — Donald condemned Donald Trump’s remarks about Muslims as “divisive,” but he and other senior officials tremely high-profile, ... a
Trump doesn’t have many have said they do not think Trump should be banned. man who is interviewing
fans in Britain’s Parliament. for the most important job
But a debate among law- (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP) in the world,” she said. “His
makers on calls to ban words are not comical, his
Trump from the country entering the United States provide and confirm an already received “far too words are not funny. His
revealed little appetite to in the wake of extremist email address — is consid- much attention.” words are poisonous.”
close Britain’s doors to the violence. Trump has also ered for parliamentary de- “The great danger by at- Prime Minister David Cam-
provocative Republican claimed that some areas bate. Monday’s debate tacking this one man is that eron has condemned
U.S. presidential contend- of Britain are so radicalized was intended to air the we can fix on him a halo of Trump’s remarks about
er. that police fear for their subject rather than take a victimhood” and boost his Muslims as “divisive, stu-
During a three-hour de- lives. vote. popularity among support- pid and wrong,” but he
bate Monday, legislators Under British law, any peti- Labour Party legislator Paul ers, Flynn said. and other senior officials
from Britain’s main par- tion supported by 100,000 Flynn, who opened the But another Labour law- have said they do not think
ties stood to call Trump an people — who must each session, said Trump had maker, Tulip Siddiq, sup- Trump should be banned.
attention-seeker, a dema- The government has the
gogue and a fool. Many, power to deny entry to
though, argued that he people with criminal con-
should not be stifled or victions or those whose
banned. presence is considered
“While I think this man is not “conducive to the
crazy, while I think this public good.” The power
man has no valid points to has been used against
make, I will not be the one figures as diverse as boxer
to silence his voice,” said Mike Tyson, rapper Tyler
Conservative lawmaker the Creator, radical Mus-
Tom Tugendhat. lim preachers and the late
Parliament took up the Christian fundamentalist
topic after half a million Fred Phelps Sr.
people signed a petition Britain also turned away
calling for Trump to be ex- anti-Islam Dutch legislator
cluded over his call for a Geert Wilders at an airport
temporary ban on Muslims in 2009. q
Germany:
First suspect held over Cologne sex assaults
FRANK JORDANS and robbing her cellphone, plaints, including 497 wom- lion asylum-seekers arrived the inequality of women”
Associated Press prosecutor’s office spokes- en alleging sexual assault. in the country last year, that many of the alleged
BERLIN (AP) — A 26-year- man Ulrich Bremer told The Some of the victims have many of them from coun- perpetrators would have
old Algerian man has be- Associated Press. jointly filed a single com- tries where women face grown up with.
come the first person ar- Two other Algerian asylum- plaint, so that the number greater discrimination than It warned, however, that
rested in connection with seekers, aged 22 and 24, of alleged crimes stands at in Germany. some of those now voicing
a string of sexual assault were also arrested in Ker- 766, of which 381 are sexu- While the incidents were outrage about the attacks
during New Year’s cel- pen and the western city of al offenses, including three seized on by those in Ger- in Cologne were doing so
ebrations in Cologne that Aachen, respectively, over rapes. many who had already to incite racism rather than
sparked a debate about the weekend, both for rob- The scale and nature of the argued for stricter immigra- out of concern for women.
Germany’s ability to inte- bery, Bremer said. The num- crimes in Cologne, cou- tion rules, left-wing parties Berlin police issued a state-
grate migrants. ber of people accused of pled with police descrip- have also voiced concern. ment Monday denying
Prosecutors said Monday committing crimes in Co- tions of the perpetrators as The opposition Green Party reports — widely shared
that the unidentified asy- logne at New Year’s now being part of a large crowd said Monday that senior on social media — that a
lum-seeker was arrested stands at 21, of whom eight of drunken men of “Arab or members passed a resolu- 13-year-old girl had been
at a refugee home in the are in detention, he said. North African” origin, has tion calling for better inte- kidnapped and raped
nearby town of Kerpen Almost three weeks after fanned the debate about gration measures to coun- by an alleged migrant in
over the weekend. He is ac- the incident, 838 people Germany’s approach to ter the message about the German capital last
cused of groping a woman have filed criminal com- migration. Almost 1.1 mil- “the superiority of men and week.q
