Trump's Proposals for Muslims Make Diplomacy Harder, Kerry Says
- `That is not America, that is not our constitution': Kerry
- U.S. Secretary of State spoke at energy conference in Paris
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Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to bar Muslims from traveling to the U.S. makes it harder to carry out effective diplomacy, Secretary of State John Kerry said, adding his voice to a chorus of figures in both major parties who’ve condemned the idea.
“There are courageous Muslims around the world, in the Middle East and elsewhere, standing up” to Islamic State militants, Kerry said Wednesday at the International New York Times’ Energy for Tomorrow conference in Paris. “What Mr. Trump has said runs contrary to all that, and makes our job of reaching out to people and sharing the real America that much more complicated and that much more difficult.”