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Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump and his campaign will be working to bridge rifts with Muslim and Hispanic communities in the months ahead of America's November elections, according to senior members of the UAE-chapter of Republicans Overseas.
Republican Overseas is a political organisation which seeks to help American voters register, represent 'Republican values', disseminate information about Republican candidates, and discuss issues of importance to Republicans abroad.
As a candidate, Trump has repeatedly come under fierce fire for his comments on Muslims, which at one point included banning all Muslims from entering the United States. It was later amended to a call for "special scrutiny" on foreigners coming from "regions associated with Islamic terrorism."
In an interview with Khaleej Times, Josh Atkinson, the Dubai director of Republicans Overseas UAE, said that "some of his comments were taken out of context".
"When he was saying that, he meant that we need to put a pause on our current immigration programme and figure out what we should do to make America safe, how to reorganise the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) and Homeland Security," he said. "This is to make Muslim, Christian, Jewish or Buddhist Americans safe in their own country."
"We have to have some sort of framework," he said. "You have to have a proper vetting and checking system to make it safe for everyone," he added.
Going forward, Atkinson said he believes that Trump will be more careful about his choice of wording and comments.
"He already has. If you look at his speeches and when he comes on, teleprompters come up," he noted. "It's a process of rebuilding unity across cultures, races and religions."
Dr Steven Anderson, chairman of Republicans Overseas in the UAE, said that "we live here in an Islamic nation, and naturally they'll ask about this."
"If I was Trump right now, I would spend until election day clarifying myself to the Hispanic community, the Muslim community, and people per se, so that they have a better understanding of what he's trying to get across," he said.
Dr Anderson said he believes that there is a mistaken - but common - perception that most members of the Republican Party harbour anti-Muslim sentiments, and compared that belief to the misconception held by some Americans that all Muslims are anti-Western and anti-American.
"Because he perhaps didn't say some things correctly, all of us were misunderstood. It's a hugely important issue," he said.
"Just as people here see Trump and get an automatic connotation because they don't know enough about Trump or America to know any better, it's the same as an average American sitting in Arkansas getting a perception of people because they see someone on TV with a machine gun in Paris."
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