WASHINGTON-Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said  that he believes “Islam hates us” and that there was “a tremendous amount of hatred there.”

Trump made those comments speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper during an interview Wednesday.

“There’s something there, there’s a tremendous hatred there. There’s a tremendous hatred. We have to get to the bottom of it. There is an unbelievable hatred of us,” Trump said. 

Trump added that it was difficult to delineate between Islam and its radical adherents.

“It’s very hard to separate, because you don’t know who’s who,” he told Cooper.

When Cooper asked about his stance on torture, Trump denied changing his stance. “I didn’t reverse anything,” he said.

Trump already came under fire last fall for his anti-Muslim and anti-immigration stance. 

He suggested a “temporary ban” on Muslims should be enacted “until we can figure out what is going on,” referring to the recent terror attacks in San Bernardino, CA at that time.

During the GOP debate in Detroit, he said that he would do a “hell of a lot worse” than waterboarding to terrorist suspects, and also authorize the military to kill family members of terrorists.

But then in a statement released the next day, he said that he would “understand that the United States is bound by laws and treaties and I will not order our military or other officials to violate those laws and will seek their advice on such matters.”

Fresh of his triple victory Tuesday in Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii, Trump continues to gain momentum despite his offensive remarks.