Trump ignores mass shootings, other crimes by non-Muslims: Muslim leader
US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s focus on the recent mass shooting in California and his anti-Muslim comments promotes Islamophobia and violence against Muslims while he ignores crimes committed by non-Muslims, a Muslim cleric and interfaith leader says.
There are hundreds of mass shootings in the US every year, but the only time religion is mentioned is when the suspects are purportedly a Muslim, said Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, the spiritual leader of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, one of the largest religious institutions in the state.
Unfortunately some Americans are “easily brainwashed” by irresponsible leaders like Trump who spreads a culture of hate among different groups, Elahi told Press TV on Sunday.
Trump is not focusing on the real issues facing the country, including gun violence, poverty, drug addiction, domestic violence and child abuse, he added.
Elahi asked why the bigotry against Muslims is not repeated by politicians and the media when mass shootings are carried out by Christians.
According to a recent study, white, right-wing Americans present a far greater terror threat to the United States than individuals linked to the al-Qaeda or ISIL extremist groups.
Trump, the leading presidential candidate from the Republican Party, has created a furor in the US and around the world by proposing that Muslims should be denied entry to the US.
Trump’s statement came in response to the mass shootings in San Bernardino, California, last week, in which a married couple described as "radicalized" by authorities allegedly killed 14 people.
Republican strategists are warning that the real estate tycoon could do long-term damage to their party, and that his nomination in the GOP primaries would essentially hand the White House to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Trump’s rhetoric has become so belligerent that some political observers, even inside his party, are asking whether he is committed to democratic principles.
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