The Trump campaign released a statement at 4:15 p.m. EST Monday about his commitment to preventing Muslim immigration. The campaign justifies this discrimination by saying that large segments of the Muslim population bear great hatred towards Americans.

Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension, Trump said in the release. Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine. Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life. If I win the election for president, we are going to make America great again.

The release cites a recent poll from the Center for Security Policy, a Washington, D.C.-based national security think tank, which said that 25 percent of U.S. Muslims asked think that violence against Americans in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad.

When contacted by Yahoo News for comment, Ibrahim Hooper, the national communications director for Council on American-Islamic Relations, was startled that a major contemporary U.S. political figure would make such a sweeping declaration.

You have to wonder what he is going to call for next. I dont even want to go there, Hooper said to Yahoo News. You have to wonder what he says next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry to new heights. Its completely astounding. I dont know what to say.

The statement comes a day after President Obama addressed the nation to discuss terrorism and warned against letting the war on ISIS be defined as a war between America and Islam.

ISIL does not speak for Islam, the commander in chief said. They are thugs and killers, part of a cult of death, and they account for a tiny fraction of more than a billion Muslims around the world including millions of patriotic Muslim Americans who reject their hateful ideology.