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Muslim leaders denounce Trump as 'bigot' and 'liar' (VIDEO)
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JERSEY
CITY - Muslim leaders gathered at the Islamic Center of Jersey City
today to denounce remarks that Republican presidential front-runner
Donald Trump has made about the Muslim community, saying his "rhetoric"
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on December 03, 2015 at 2:05 PM, updated December 03, 2015 at 7:16 PM
JERSEY CITY — Muslim leaders gathered at the Islamic Center of Jersey City today to denounce remarks that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has made about the Muslim community, saying his "rhetoric" is responsible for an increase in attacks on American Muslims.
Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American–Islamic Relations, said the Republican Party should distance itself from Trump's remarks or else his "bigotry" will be a part of the party's legacy.
"Trump is not only a bigot, but a liar," Awad said. "A dangerous one at that."
Awad said there has been a recent increase in attacks on mosques and American Muslims, which he said Trump is "at least partially responsible for." He invited Trump to visit the Park Street center, a mosque and school, to learn more about Islam.
Trump has called for increased surveillance of mosques, and claimed at a Nov. 21 campaign stop that he saw "thousands and thousands" of people in Jersey City cheering as the World Trade Center was destroyed. His remarks were widely discredited, but he has not backed down, citing old news clips as evidence that Muslims were celebrating en mass in Jersey City on Sept. 11, 2001.
Trump's campaign did not immediately return a request for comment today.
"Quite the contrary — Jersey City was used as a trauma center," Fulop said. "The Muslim community was volunteering side-by-side with the Jewish community and the Christian community and the Coptic community, helping people come over."
Trump supporters have pointed to a recently unearthed video of a news segment initially broadcast after the 2001 attacks that reported on an alleged celebration of Muslims on a rooftop near Journal Square in Jersey City, saying the broadcast proves Trump was correct.
But one or two Muslims celebrating — if that's what happened — doesn't confirm Trump's claims of "thousands and thousands" of people cheering on the attacks, said Hatem Elhagaly, who sits on the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America. Elhagaly said he does not know of any celebrations that day.
"However, retrospectively, I cannot rule out the possibility of ... a few heartless individuals with sick and deviant ideology could have celebrated," he said. "We have some people who are deviant in their ideology. I think a lot of communities do."
Today's press conference was scheduled before a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., yesterday that left 14 dead, but speakers referred repeatedly to the attack. Police have identified the two shooters as a Muslim American couple. Awad said CAIR is "heartbroken and horrified" by what he called the "vicious attack."
Nadia Kahf, chair of CAIR New Jersey, criticized members of the media for focusing on the couple's religion the way they don't for mass shooters who aren't Muslim, like Robert Dear, the man suspected to be behind the Nov. 27 attack on a Planned Parenthood in Colorado that left three dead.
"You cannot paint all Muslims with the same brush," Kahf said.
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on December 03, 2015 at 2:05 PM, updated December 03, 2015 at 7:16 PM
Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American–Islamic Relations, said the Republican Party should distance itself from Trump's remarks or else his "bigotry" will be a part of the party's legacy.
"Trump is not only a bigot, but a liar," Awad said. "A dangerous one at that."
Awad said there has been a recent increase in attacks on mosques and American Muslims, which he said Trump is "at least partially responsible for." He invited Trump to visit the Park Street center, a mosque and school, to learn more about Islam.
Trump has called for increased surveillance of mosques, and claimed at a Nov. 21 campaign stop that he saw "thousands and thousands" of people in Jersey City cheering as the World Trade Center was destroyed. His remarks were widely discredited, but he has not backed down, citing old news clips as evidence that Muslims were celebrating en mass in Jersey City on Sept. 11, 2001.
Trump's campaign did not immediately return a request for comment today.
Thousands
and thousands of people in Jersey City did not cheer the destruction of
the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Period. End of story. There
is no need to continue to "fact check'' Trump's words.
Today, Mayor Steve Fulop said there is "nothing to substantiate" that
the Muslim community in Jersey City was joyous as a result of the
attacks."Quite the contrary — Jersey City was used as a trauma center," Fulop said. "The Muslim community was volunteering side-by-side with the Jewish community and the Christian community and the Coptic community, helping people come over."
Trump supporters have pointed to a recently unearthed video of a news segment initially broadcast after the 2001 attacks that reported on an alleged celebration of Muslims on a rooftop near Journal Square in Jersey City, saying the broadcast proves Trump was correct.
But one or two Muslims celebrating — if that's what happened — doesn't confirm Trump's claims of "thousands and thousands" of people cheering on the attacks, said Hatem Elhagaly, who sits on the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America. Elhagaly said he does not know of any celebrations that day.
"However, retrospectively, I cannot rule out the possibility of ... a few heartless individuals with sick and deviant ideology could have celebrated," he said. "We have some people who are deviant in their ideology. I think a lot of communities do."
Today's press conference was scheduled before a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., yesterday that left 14 dead, but speakers referred repeatedly to the attack. Police have identified the two shooters as a Muslim American couple. Awad said CAIR is "heartbroken and horrified" by what he called the "vicious attack."
Nadia Kahf, chair of CAIR New Jersey, criticized members of the media for focusing on the couple's religion the way they don't for mass shooters who aren't Muslim, like Robert Dear, the man suspected to be behind the Nov. 27 attack on a Planned Parenthood in Colorado that left three dead.
"You cannot paint all Muslims with the same brush," Kahf said.
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