Trump: ‘We’re having problems with the Muslims’

Donald Trump tells a Fox interviewer that “we’re having problems with the Muslims,” in response to the Belgium attacks.

“These attacks are not done by Swedish people. That I can tell you. We have to be smart. We have to look at the mosques and study what’s going on. There is a sick problem going on,” he tells Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo, according to The Hill.

Earlier Trump called for borders to be closed as a way of fighting terror and encouraged the use of waterboarding and other forms of torture.

“We have to have strong borders, we have to be very vigilant and careful of who we allow into our country. Uh, I know Brussels well, and Brussels is a total mess,” he told NBC.

His main GOP rival, Ted Cruz, also says he will dispense with political correctness, calling for increased police patrols on Muslim areas in the US.

“We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized,” he says in a statement.

He adds that the US should stem the flow of refugees from countries with significant Islamic State presence as well as the southern border.

On the other end of the political spectrum, Hillary Clinton says closing the borders is unrealistic and unwise.

“Closing our borders to all people of a certain religion is not either consistent with those or isn’t smart to shut down our system of commerce and the free movement of people and goods,” she tells ABC.

She adds that the US should boost international cooperation to fight terror.

Democratic rival Bernie Sanders condemns the attack in a statement and calls on the international community to come together to “destroy ISIS.”