--- title: Trump Says He Would Consider Shutting Down Radical Mosques description: The Republican presidential candidate said he supported recent British proposals to combat extremism, including shuttering houses of worship canonical: https://time.com/4082627/trump-mosques-minimum-wage/ author: Tanya Basu article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-22T00:54:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:59:05.963Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Says He Would Consider Shutting Down Radical Mosques og:description: His comments come in response to similar British proposals og:url: https://time.com/4082627/trump-mosques-minimum-wage/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3530c520a0ac4207/6988694e0a4a224e9b9c6aae/donald-trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Says He Would Consider Shutting Down Radical Mosques twitter:description: His comments come in response to similar British proposals twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3530c520a0ac4207/6988694e0a4a224e9b9c6aae/donald-trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Says He Would Consider Shutting Down Radical Mosques  by [Tanya Basu](https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Oct 22, 2015 12:54 AM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump watches as Luis Ortiz fights Matias Ariel Vidondo of Argentina during a WBA heavyweight title bout at Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 17, 2015. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump watches as Luis Ortiz fights Matias Ariel Vidondo of Argentina during a WBA heavyweight title bout at Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 17, 2015.Rich Schultz—AP  by [Tanya Basu](https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Oct 22, 2015 12:54 AM UTC Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview Wednesday that he would consider shuttering some U.S. mosques in order to counter extremism. Trump’s remarks came during an [interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvzRtugvR1Q) on Fox Business with Stuart Varney. When asked if he would follow new [British proposals](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/19/us-britain-cameron-militants-idUSKCN0SC17720151019) for countering extremism that include revoking the passports of people who travel to fight with ISIS and shuttering mosques that support extremism, Trump responded: “I would do that, absolutely, I think it’s great.” When Varney pressed and asked if Trump could legally shut down mosques given U.S. protections for religious freedom, Trump backpedalled slightly. “Well, I don’t know,” he said. “I mean, I haven’t heard about the closing of the mosque. It depends, if the mosque is, you know, loaded for bear, I don’t know. You’re going to have to certainly look at it.” Varney also asked Trump what he thought about raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour. “One of the reasons companies are leaving is because salaries are too high,” Trump said. ” … So we have to be very very careful with that, that sounds so easy, but we have to be very competitive or we’re going to lose all of our jobs in this country.” Watch the interview below: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4082627/trump-mosques-minimum-wage/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4082627/trump-mosques-minimum-wage/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Says He Would Consider Shutting Down Radical Mosques","datePublished":"2015-10-22T00:54:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:59:05.963Z","description":"His comments come in response to similar British proposals","url":"https://time.com/4082627/trump-mosques-minimum-wage/","keywords":["2016 elections","republicans","Britain","Immigration","Minimum Wage","ISIS","Fox","Muslims","Islam","United Kingdom","Donald Trump","paternity leave","maternity leave"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3530c520a0ac4207/6988694e0a4a224e9b9c6aae/donald-trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tanya Basu","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3530c520a0ac4207/6988694e0a4a224e9b9c6aae/donald-trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Donald Trump","creditText":"Rich Schultz—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-elections/","name":"2016 elections"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4082627/trump-mosques-minimum-wage/","name":"Donald Trump Says He Would Consider Shutting Down Radical Mosques"}}]}] ```