People need to realize how brave this sister is.

[kpete]

Last edited Sat Jan 9, 2016, 01:41 PM - Edit history (2)

A Muslim woman was escorted out of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s rally in South Carolina on Friday after she stood up in silent protest.

Trump commented on Hamid as she was being ejected:
“There is hatred against us that is unbelievable. It’s their hatred, it’s not our hatred,” Trump said.

Trump has stoked antipathy against Muslims by calling for a total ban on Muslim immigration into the U.S. Since making the announcement Trump’s standing in the polls has only improved.

MORE:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/01/08/3737746/muslim-woman-gets-kicked-out-of-donald-trump-rally-for-being-muslim/

According to Hamid, one person shouted, “You have a bomb, you have a bomb,” CNN reported.

“The ugliness really came out fast and that’s really scary,” she told CNN after she was escorted out of the venue.

Hamid added that several people around her held her hand and said “sorry” as she was forced to leave.

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Hamid told CNN before the event that she didn’t plan to disrupt the event, but wanted to give Trump’s supporters some insight as to what Muslims are like.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/265314-muslim-woman-ejected-from-trump-rally
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/08/politics/donald-trump-muslim-woman-protesting-ejected/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/08/muslim-woman-escorted-out-of-trump-rally-in-south-carolina/
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/muslim-woman-thrown-trump-rally-160109094742523.html

[oldandhappy]

1. WOW Very brave woman

[MohRokTah]

2. They are wearing a yellow Rub el Hizb like they were yellow Stars of David

[awoke_in_2003]

32. We keep going the way we are

and they won't have a choice in the matter

[Omaha Steve]

3. Thanks for posting

K&R!

OS

[spanone]

4. and people need to realize what a dangerous demagogue trump is

she did nothing to disrupt anything.

[roguevalley]

5. I love them both so much

[perdita9]

6. Now I can see how Hitler rose to power

The same people who supported him, are now attending rallies for Trump

[DLevine]

17. Yup, I see it too. Scary. nt

[SusanCalvin]

29. Yep.

I hate living in interesting times.

[awoke_in_2003]

34. Yep

Too many are taking this guy lightly and are saying he can't win. Hitler and Mussolini were buffoons, too.

[GoneFishin]

40. Yes. Troublesome.

[catbyte]

7. TrumpWorld: Peace = Hate

Words fail me.

[beergood]

42. "WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH,"

[valerief]

8. I hate religion, especially when it's flaunted. Yes, she's brave, and yes, the Trumpanzees are

racist assholes, but only when all religions are eradicated can we progress as a species. I fear that will never happen.

[Hekate]

11. How do you propose to "eradicate all religions"?

[valerief]

24. Educating people. How that happens is another question. nt

[mdbl]

30. Agreed. Until the fantasy religions are taken out of the equation, society will suffer

from ignorance.

[dsc]

21. yes just how dare that woman walk around

with a religiously inspired protest. I mean when have they ever done anything of merit. It is like a Reverend lead the Civil Rights movement or priests led the nuclear freeze movement.

[valerief]

25. All religions veil and twist truth. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

36. I hate religion, too

but here a point is being made. Wearing a yellow Rub el Hizb, which looks a heck of a lot like the Star of David, is no mistake.

[libdem4life]

37. Religion is as much a part of a culture as food, language, child-rearing. Which of those might be

OK to get rid of. Every culture from whatever Beginning one ascribes to, included the Big Bang, has a central focus on energy...god...chi...great mother...my major was Sociology and Theology grad work and sorry, not going to happen.

ETA: We didn't create ourselves...and that's an unknown which is often deified.

[gregcrawford]

45. Trumpanzees!

I am SO stealing that!

[valerief]

46. I stole it from someone else. I love it, too. nt

[Blecht]

9. Trump supporters are worse than early Hitler supporters were

Now there is so much information easily available about the dangers of this kind of hatred that wasn't around for the Germans. Willfully ignoring this sea of information and continuing down this path today -- there really is no excuse for it.

[daleanime]

13. +1

[MisterP]

18. it's the same scenario with Yuko Tojo: her grandfather was a doorknob weasel fascist who oversaw

torture of every one of his own men

but it's one thing to do so out of motivation or even power-hungry expediency, and quite another to look at all that and say, "damn, he should've gone further than that"

[SoLeftIAmRight]

22. not yet

but I fear

[jtuck004]

10. "...several people around her held her hand and said “sorry”..." < Oh,well, that's all good then.

Enjoy your rally, hope you don't spill your drink on your brown shirt.

[surrealAmerican]

14. My hope is that those who said "sorry" are now ready ...

... to abandon this demagogue and his hateful supporters, even if they were not brave enough to do so at that moment.

She may have succeeded in making a few people see the harm this man is causing.

[jtuck004]

20. It's been how many hundred years for black folk? Lotsa sorry white folk,

lotsa dead, unemployed, and imprisoned black folk, for doing nothing more than trying to live with a different skin tone. It may even be worse than it has been in some time.

It might go the other direction just as easy. I've seen it, in this country, i different decades. These people are no different.

[renate]

26. I see that as a possible reason for hope

Maybe even a few people at a Trump rally are capable of realizing that she shouldn't have been kicked out.

But what I think is likelier is that they lied in order to get in and said they supported him but really don't. Either way, I'm glad she got a little encouragement and kindness as she left. What a brave woman.

[daleanime]

12. K&R.....

[niyad]

15. a very brave woman indeed.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. She's the kind of woman who can "Make America Great".

[mwrguy]

27. Insha'Allah!

This will come to be true.

[GoCubsGo]

19. I hope the ones who said "sorry" reached some sort of epiphany here.

Hopefully, this incident caused them to look at themselves and say, "What the hell am I doing here, supporting this vulgar, hateful sack of feces?" Just wishful thinking, unfortunately.

Ms. Hamid has a much stronger stomach than I do. I could never bring myself to attend one of those rallies. I couldn't stomach being amid all that hate and crazy. Ick. Just ick. It's like swimming in a putrid cesspool.

[myrna minx]

23. K&R n/t

[countryjake]

28. "Salam ... I come in Peace"

[tblue37]

31. I am glad, though, that at least some there apologized to her and

felt embarrassed.

[Dawson Leery]

33. I concur. A Muslim in a KKK rally could have gone much worse.

[DirkGently]

35. KNR. n/t.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

38. I'm tired of CNN and their "both sides" angle....

Sympathy for the racist rednecks for their feeling "uncomfortable".

[Enthusiast]

41. CNN is fucking pathetic! Never watch CNN.

[burrowowl]

39. K&R!!!!!!

[Bad Dog]

43. Would dressing as a snowman be any better?

[mfcorey1]

44. Donald Trump's supporters are headed to hell in a rowboat!

He'll be there waiting for them.

[redruddyred]

47. an independent in nh today told me he was voting GOP in order to stand against Trump

expressed his support for bernie as well but seemed more concerned with the state of the right.
obvy was white; made me proud of my country.