Trump is liar and not qualified to become president: Analyst

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a hypocrite, who is not qualified to become the president of the United States as his remarks about Muslims show he plans to break the first amendment of the US constitution, American political analyst Mark Glenn says.

Trump says the US should "strongly consider" shutting some mosques on the pretext of preventing terrorist operations in the country in the wake of the deadly Paris attacks.

"I would hate to do it, but it's something that you're going to have to strongly consider," Trump told cable broadcaster MSNBC Monday.

The Republican frontrunner also said the government should increase surveillance in and around mosques.

"We have to be much tougher," he said. "We are going to have to give up certain privileges that we've always had."

If elected as president, Trump “has to swear an oath to defend the Constitution. Part of that Constitution is the first amendment which prohibits the federal government from doing exactly what Donald Trump is talking about doing which is to limit the expression of someone’s religion,” Glenn of Crescent & Cross Solidarity Movement told Press TV on Tuesday.

“What he’s saying is that as president he would absolutely abrogate the very same constitution which he would be swearing to uphold, which means by definition that he’s a fraud and he is a liar, he’s not qualified to become president,” he added.

Trump’s remarks came after French Prime Minister Manuel Valls made similar remarks about the Muslims' place of worship.

However, Trump said, "I know so many people, Muslims, who are such unbelievably great people and they are being so badly tarnished by what's happening now. It's a shame."

Trump, who leads the race for the 2016 Republican nomination, pointed to the "great surveillance" that previous New York administrations had conducted on Muslim places of worship, particularly after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and suggested such monitoring should be resumed.

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