Posted on 12/09/2015 9:59:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Jersey City (United States) (AFP) - Muslim Americans are pleading with Donald Trump to stop encouraging violence in demanding a "complete" halt to Muslim immigration after a New York shopkeeper was beaten in a possible hate crime.
Republican presidential frontrunner Trump's inflammatory call is part of what activists have described as an unprecedented anti-Muslim backlash following the Paris attacks and the shooting in California by a couple believed to have turned extremist.
"He's giving the right to people to hurt us," said Ahmed Shedeed, who moved to the United States from Egypt in 1980 with a degree in agricultural engineering and today runs a travel agency.
Also director of The Islamic Center of Jersey City, he spoke to AFP at a mosque, accusing Trump of provoking hate and violence.
"I'm asking him, I'm begging him. It has to stop -- all these accusations. Look at the Muslim community as part of the American mosaic and we are part of America. We are not going anywhere."
Muslim Americans say they are afraid. They talk about women wearing the hijab being spat on, a Muslim taxi driver being shot in the back on Thanksgiving and a pig's head found outside a Philadelphia mosque.
Just hours before the Republican frontrunner's call for an end to Muslim immigration, community leaders from New Jersey met prosecutors asking them to take seriously alleged hate crimes against Muslims.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil liberties group in the country, says it has documented a wave of abuse, vandalism and acts of discrimination in the last month.
"It is reckless and simply un-American. Donald Trump sounds more like a leader of a lynch mob than a great nation like ours," CAIR executive director Nihad Awad told a news conference in Washington, DC.
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Well, get your fellow Muslims to stop committing acts of terror then the accusations will stop.
With todays extreme leftist media funny how I never read about any of these attacks they are claiming.
Just giving room to destroy....
What unmitigated bulls*t. What else to expect from Yahoo News.
They really are in a panic.
Shove it up your pet goat, muzzles.
Your time is up.
How about these Muslim Americans speak out condemning ISIS and demanding that members of their communities turn in anyone who has become radicalized?
moslems need to focus on reforming their islam.
Set up. Faux attack.
I think a ban based on country of origin, travel, and organizations belonged to would be a less blunt tool and accomplish almost the same thing.
There is a big difference between a Muslim in name only from certain Asian countries and a Syrian or a Frenchman who had traveled to Syria for example.
Good grief MUSLIMS!
It is TIME to CLEAN your house out the FILTH!
Oh just stop it! Convert ragheads!
American mosaic and we are part of America.
If that is true why don’t they rat out the bad ones haven’t seen the list yet.
I listen to John Gibson’s radio show some days. There was a caller earlier this week who claimed to be a muslim and complained loudly about Trump’s opinions.
Gibson asked him if he would tell the authorities if people in his mosque were planning an attack. His reply: “I’m not a snitch.”
Bullsh*t.
How about, “Gee, please don’t stop Muslim immigration because we love this country, it’s so much better than where we came from, and we really want to be Americans! We understand your fears, considering the violence committed by some of us, and we condemn that, too.”
No...instead all we get from them are demands, “don’t profile,” etc.
Hey Ahmed, your so-called religion demands that you "hurt" people. But I have a solution - just abandon your evil moon god.
Oh, poor babies! Assimilate or get the hell out of our country!
Exactly, they are like the inner city where people don't snitch.
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