Trump angered Muslims by seeming to suggest that they were the ones
responsible for countering the rise of Islamophobia in America
Muslims have taken to Twitter to helpfully “report stuff”, following Donald Trump’s response to a question in the second presidential debate about combating rising Islamophobia.
Gorbah Hamed, an undecided Muslim voter from Missouri, had asked Trump and Hillary Clinton what they would do to “help people like me deal with the consequences of being labelled a threat to the country”.
Trump agreed that Islamophobia existed: “And that’s a shame.”
But, he added, “whether we like it or not, there is a problem” with Islamic extremism.
His proposed solution was that Muslims should “come in and report when they see something going on”.
Moustafa Bayoumi, a writer and associate professor of English at Brooklyn College at the City University of New York, joked on Twitter that he was Muslim – “and I would like to report a crazy man threatening a woman on a stage in Missouri”.
Muslims have taken to Twitter to helpfully “report stuff”, following Donald Trump’s response to a question in the second presidential debate about combating rising Islamophobia.
Gorbah Hamed, an undecided Muslim voter from Missouri, had asked Trump and Hillary Clinton what they would do to “help people like me deal with the consequences of being labelled a threat to the country”.
Trump agreed that Islamophobia existed: “And that’s a shame.”
But, he added, “whether we like it or not, there is a problem” with Islamic extremism.
His proposed solution was that Muslims should “come in and report when they see something going on”.
Moustafa Bayoumi, a writer and associate professor of English at Brooklyn College at the City University of New York, joked on Twitter that he was Muslim – “and I would like to report a crazy man threatening a woman on a stage in Missouri”.
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