Awad says Trump should be held “at least partly responsible” for an increase in hostility toward Muslims in the United States because of his rhetoric.
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Even though there were a lot of rumors regarding Muslims cheering after the 9/11 attacks, various news organizations tried to confirm these but failed.
“We had a number of reports of people celebrating”, Kerik said.
Pastor Kerney Thomas of Opelousas Life Church said since the meeting, he’s changed his opinion of Trump, “He wants to bring more protection to America, he wants to bring back the dignity and the pride back to our country”.
“Prostitutes for Trump … don’t let black pulpit become a pole”, he declared in a Periscope video he posted to Twitter Monday.
Peterson made his comments after Trump met Monday with black religious leaders (photo above), including pastors and evangelists, at his Trump Tower in Manhattan. What’s more discouraging than the things that he has said is the fact that in the face of him saying all these things, he continues to surge in the polls.
In his second major jab at Donald Trump in 24 hours, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie slammed the Republican front-runner for his apparent mocking of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has a muscular disability.
His remarks were widely discredited, but he has not backed down, citing old news clips as evidence that Muslims were celebrating en mass in Jersey City on September 11, 2001. “I will win the Hispanics”, he said.
“What no one else outside the terrorist task force knows, is that just a couple of blocks from that Jersey City apartment the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided yesterday…is another apartment building, one that an investigator told me is “swarming” with suspects”, Guzmán said in the 2001 report.
During his rally he also attacked US President Barack Obama, saying that history would remember him as a “horrible president” who “didn’t know what the hell he was doing”.
“I would sit down with Trump on my terms”, she said. I saw it. It was on television.
Bernie Sanders said that Trump adds to the growth of Islamaphobia with his comments.
In the aftermath of Trump’s claim that “thousands” of Muslims were celebrating the destruction of the Twin Towers, one point is becoming clear: While he may have exaggerated or conflated events that happened elsewhere, his basic claim is correct.
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Trump, who is famously unbridled in his public pronouncements, has caused deep offence in America’s black community by his apparent indifference to concerns over discrimination and the evident targeting of young black people by police. “People were celebrating, he’s right about that”.
