He said he does not believe Trump means what he says, and “throws words out of his mouth” without thinking, because he is not a politician. Just as some today argue that the religious liberties of Muslims should not be respected because Islam is not really a religion, many 19th century Americans claimed that Roman Catholicism was really a political scheme to take over the country, and that Mormonism was really an insidious business enterprise.
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Given pork is forbidden in Islam, the gesture is particularly offensive. “I will fight with you”. “God is a pig!” and “God is Pork!”.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is right: “ISIS loves Donald Trump because he is giving them an opportunity to bring people their way”.
Mr. Obama “has laid out the need to enlist Muslim-American communities in the past”, CBS News senior national security analyst Juan Zarate said.
The nonpartisan Pew Research Center released new numbers on Monday indicating that, while Christianity is now the largest religion in the world, it is set to be overtaken by Islam by the year 2100. We have no evidence that the killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas, or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home.
Sana Rashid wasn’t beaten but verbally assailed while at work as a pharmacist, Hooper said.
Saadeh, however, said he has felt tense at times when out in public with his wife and daughters, who wear the traditional Islamic head covering, a hijab.
Then there is the trickle of threatening phone calls that come into mosques around the country. This week, Obama addressed the nation, saying the terrorist threat has “evolved into a new phase” of attacks.
“We quite literally haven’t had time to breathe”, said CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper. One threat against CAIR’s office in St. Louis was so bad that police arrested the caller.
The debate over immigration is unfolding as Congress prepares to approve a sprawling yearly funding bill that will provide the financial resources for the USA government to enact Obama administration plans to accept up to 10,000 Syrian refugees. He has quit counting them. “They’re picking up on the anti-Muslim message” and “Call out hate speech when you hear it – if it incites hatred or violence against a specified group, call it out”. And since the attacks in Paris, our closest allies – France, Germany, and the United Kingdom – have ramped up their contributions to our military campaign, which will help us accelerate our effort to destroy ISIL.
Last week, the terror threat drew even closer for Americans when a couple – a 29-year-old woman originally from Pakistan and her 28-year-old American-born husband – launched an attack on a holiday luncheon in San Bernardino.
Hooper thinks that the political vitriol that followed the attacks has stoked the flames of hate even more than the attacks themselves. It took the president four days to respond and finally admit what most Americans already knew – it was a terrorist attack. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who until recently was second behind Trump in opinion polls, said in September that a Muslim should not be president.
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We should come together as a nation, he said, “to remember that our freedom is bound up with the freedom of others, regardless of what they look like, or where they come from, or what their last name is or what faith they practice”. 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.
