Alwaght- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has called on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to offer a public apology to a Muslim woman verbally abused by the crowd and kicked out of one of his campaign rallies .
“The image of a Muslim woman being abused and ejected from a political rally sends a chilling message to American Muslims and to all those who value our nation’s traditions of religious diversity and civic participation,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad. “Donald Trump should issue a public apology to the Muslim woman kicked out of his rally and make a clear statement that American Muslims are welcome as fellow citizens and as participants in the nation’s political process.”
Awad also called on Trump to meet with American Muslim leaders to help stem the anti-Muslim hysteria resulting from his rhetoric and that of other GOP presidential candidates.
On Friday, a Muslim woman was kicked out of a campaign rally of US presidential hopeful Donald Trump in Rockville, South Carolina. Rose Hamid, 56, who was sitting in the stands behind Trump in the rally held in Rock Hill, South Carolina, stood up when the billionaire businessman suggested that Syrian refugees were affiliated with the ISIS terrorist group.
Trump commented on Hamid as she was being kicked out of the event. “There is hatred against us that is unbelievable. It’s their hatred, it’s not our hatred,” he said.
Hamid, a flight attendant, said that she attended the campaign rally to “let Trump supporters see what a Muslim looks like.”
"I figured that most Trump supporters probably never met a Muslim so I figured that I'd give them the opportunity to meet one," she said, wearing a shirt that read "Salam, I come in peace."
Despite her silence, Trump supporters around her began shouting “epithets” at the woman.
"The ugliness really came out fast and that's really scary," Hamid said.
Trump’s presidential campaign has been marked by controversial statements directed against immigrants, refugees and Muslims.
The real estate mogul has provoked anger by proposing a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims" entering the United States. He has also said that Muslim Americans should register in a national database for security reasons.
