Presumably the least self-aware individuals who voted within the presidential election (or possibly Latinos who will now see their kinfolk deported), Muslims who voted for Trump are actually realizing too late what an extremely poor selection they’ve simply made.
Supply: Reuters
US Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest towards the Biden administration’s assist for Israel’s warfare on Gaza and assaults on Lebanon have been deeply disillusioned by his cupboard picks, they inform Reuters.
“Trump gained due to us and we’re not joyful along with his Secretary of State choose and others,” says Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris marketing campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump. Muslim assist for Trump helped him win Michigan and will have factored into different swing state wins, strategists imagine.
Trump picked Republican senator Marco Rubio, a staunch supporter of Israel for Secretary of State. Rubio stated earlier this 12 months he wouldn’t name for a ceasefire in Gaza, and that he believed Israel ought to destroy “each component” of Hamas. “These individuals are vicious animals,” he provides.
Trump additionally nominated Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and staunch pro-Israel conservative who backs Israeli occupation of the West Financial institution and has referred to as a two-state answer “unworkable,” as the subsequent ambassador to Israel.
He has picked Republican Consultant Elise Stefanik, who referred to as the UN a “cesspool of antisemitism” for its condemnation of deaths in Gaza, to function US ambassador to the United Nations.
And what was the response?
Rexhinaldo Nazarko, govt director of the American Muslim Engagement and Empowerment Community (AMEEN), says Muslim voters had hoped Trump would select cupboard officers who work towards peace, and there was no signal of that.
“We’re very disillusioned,” he stated. “It looks like this administration has been packed solely with neoconservatives and very pro-Israel, pro-war individuals, which is a failure on the facet of President Trump, to the pro-peace and anti-war motion.”
Or possibly they need to have taken a touch final summer time.
