This is bad for Trump. Very very bad.
A Muslim lady, doing nothing but standing with a shirt on saying "I come in peace", for reasons still unknown was thrown out of a Trump election rally.
She gave a profound interview afterwards (below) which is one of those rare ones that you know is going to affect the public discourse. She believes that when you get to know people as fellow human beings then the hate evaporates.
Something I might add which I believe in writing this blog; that when people see that HIV+ gay people aren't "those people" but human beings just like everyone else, then the hate evaporates.
A 56-year-old Muslim American woman was thrown out of a rally in support of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump following a silent protest.
Rose Hamid was forcibly removed by security guards from the hall in South Carolina on Friday, after standing up in the crowd while wearing a shirt saying: "Salam. I come in peace."
Hamid, and a few other protesters with her, also wore yellow Jewish stars of David marked "Muslim" to recall the forced identification markers under Nazi Germany.
Video footage aired on CNN of the moment when Hamid was being escorted out, shows many Trump supporters shouting at her.
Hamid, who works as a flight attendant, told CNN that some shouted questions at her such as "Do you have a bomb? Do you have a bomb?"
But according to Hamid, her silent protest of the "hateful rhetoric" found in Trump's camp is mainly an element existing within the "crowd mentality", as opposed to personal beliefs held by most Republicans.
"This demonstrates how when you start dehumanising the other it can turn people into very hateful, ugly people," Hamid told CNN.
"I have the sincere belief that if people get to know each other one-on-one, that they'll stop being afraid of each other."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has issued a press statement calling on Trump to offer a public apology for the action. ninemsn
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