'Why did no one turn them in?' Donald Trump slams Muslims for failing to report suspects

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The loud-mouth politician, who is on course to win the Republican nomination for November’s presidential election, lashed out in the wake of yesterday’s suicide bombings in Brussels. At least 34 people are dead following the blasts at an airport and metro station in the Belgian capital, for which the Islamic State (ISIS) have claimed responsibility. Trump told ITV Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan that Muslim communities were not doing enough to prevent terror attacks across Europe. He said: “When they see trouble they have to report it. They are not reporting it. “They are absolutely not reporting it and that is a big problem.” But the property tycoon’s comments were met with a furious reaction among Britain’s top security officials. Home Secretary Theresa May told the House of Commons that Trump was “just plain wrong”. She told MPs it was “absolutely not the case” that British Muslims did not co-operate with police and security services. Mrs May added: “We do see people in Muslim communities around the UK who are as concerned as everybody else is in the UK - both about the attacks that have taken place but also about the perversion of Islam, which underlines the ideology that has led to violence. “We work with them and will continue to work with them to ensure that everything we do is about uniting our communities and not about dividing them.” senior counter-terrorism officer also dismissed Trump’s comments as he warned the far-right candidate risked sparking a wave of hate crimes against Muslims. The Met Police’s deputy assistant commissioner Neil Basu, from the UK Counter Terrorism Policing Network, told BBC Radio 4: “He is wrong. "There is a generational problem here. Without a doubt we have to encourage more reporting from the Muslim community and from all communities, because unlike in some other places in the world we do have integrated communities and we have people living side by side. "If we demonise one section of the community that is the worst thing we can do, we are absolutely playing into the terrorists' hands of making people feel hate." He added: "When events like this happen in Brussels and Paris very unfortunately we do see a spike in hate crime," he said. "We don't want that to happen in our communities, we want people to feel safe and confident to come forward to the police and report what they have to report."