Donald Trump has backtracked on the suggested idea of a 'Muslim database'

The US appeared to finally think Donald Trump had crossed the line over the idea of registering all Muslims in the country in a database, and the presidential candidate has had to retract his comments. In an interview with Yahoo! News on Thursday, the Republican presidential candidate was asked what he meant when he called for increased surveillance in the wake of the Paris terror attacks last week. Trump told the reporter he remained open to the idea of registering US citizens who practice Islam in a database or require them to carry special identification papers: We’re going to have to do things that we never did before. Some people are going to be upset about it, but I think that now everybody has the feeling that security is going to rule. The comments and suggestion of a religion-filtered database drew criticism from all corners of the political spectrum. Other GOP candidates called the suggestion "abhorrent". In a televised interview on Thursday night Trump doubled down on the idea, saying he would “absolutely” implement the plan. When asked by a reporter how it differed from the forced registration of Jews in Nazi Germany, he replied: You tell me.

But by Friday Trump had backed away from the idea, tweeting that it had originally been the Yahoo reporter's suggestion, rather than his own: I didn't suggest a database-a reporter did. We must defeat Islamic terrorism & have surveillance, including a watch list, to protect America — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2015 Now if he could just apologise for all his other islamophobic comments, and everything he's ever said about Mexico, China, black people, poor people and women, that would be great.