Muslim woman ejected from Donald Trump rally after silent protest

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ABC NEWS:A Muslim woman was kicked out of a Donald Trump presidential campaign rally after staging a silent protest against the Republican frontrunner, who has called for a ban on Muslims entering the US.

Television footage from the event in South Carolina shows the woman, named as Rose Hamid, a 56-year-old flight attendant, wearing a head scarf and shirt reading “Salam. I come in peace.”

She stood in silence looking at the podium as the rest of the crowd sat.

Later, she was escorted out as Mr Trump supporters waved placards bearing his name in her face and chanted for him.

Ms Hamid said one supporter of the billionaire real-estate mogul bawled at her: “You have a bomb, you have a bomb.”

“The ugliness really came out fast and that’s really scary,” Ms Hamid told CNN after Friday night’s rally.

Mr Trump, who leads the polls for the Republican nomination for the White House, ignited a global firestorm last month when he called for the temporary ban on Muslims entering the US, following an attack in California by a radicalised Muslim couple that left 14 people dead.

“There is hatred against us that is unbelievable,” Mr Trump told the rally, according to CNN, after Hamid and several others were ejected. “It’s their hatred. It’s not our hatred.”

But a prominent Muslim advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), condemned Ms Hamid’s removal and called on Mr Trump to apologise.

“The image of a Muslim woman being abused and ejected from a political rally sends a chilling message to American Muslims,” CAIR executive director Nihad Awad said in a statement carried by US media.

Muslims in the United States have faced a backlash following the November terror attacks in Paris and the San Bernardino attack in California on December 2.

Critics of Mr Trump’s bombastic run for the presidency accuse him of fanning the flames and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton says he is the “best recruiter” for the Islamic State extremist group.

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I saw an interview with this woman. To me she did not come off as a person who was seeking major confrontation, more to represent and be present. She was quite “all american” (not that it should really matter) and quite complimentary of those around her. Though she did express concern about how a crowd mentality can make some of those same people say ignorant things to her later as she is being escorted out.
 
did she do this on her own accord or did someone put her up to this?

she obviously was cooperative and not trying to make a scene.
 
Is there any difference between silent protesters and vocal protesters?
Doesn’t a campaign have the right to kick them out and have them removed regardless?

I also don’t think the Trump rally erupted in spontaneous hatred. I’ve read that the Trump campaign instructed the audience to start chanting Trump if any kind of protest happened. A kind of protest happened, it didn’t happen to be vocal. But, the people just responded to it the same way.
 
It is strange to watch American mass behavior like this . Yelling,shouting,out of control as incited…
It gives a sad and decadent impression inconsistent with one is used to and expects.

The woman sounded reasonable in her arguments ,and what called my attention is she said she knew people would not permit anyone to harm her. This sort of moved me cause she trusted somehow in American real values.
This was my impression from outside.
 
Benedict_Option said:
Is there any difference between silent protesters and vocal protesters?
Doesn’t a campaign have the right to kick them out and have them removed regardless?

I also don’t think the Trump rally erupted in spontaneous hatred. I’ve read that the Trump campaign instructed the audience to start chanting Trump if any kind of protest happened. A kind of protest happened, it didn’t happen to be vocal. But, the people just responded to it the same way.
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if the person was causing a distraction I would think they would have the right to escort him/her out.
 
7_Sorrows said:
did she do this on her own accord or did someone put her up to this?

she obviously was cooperative and not trying to make a scene.
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If she had not been a Muslim woman, I might have entertained the possibility that the campaign itself put her up to do this. Just because if I were a Muslim woman I certainly wouldn’t be in cahoots with Donald Trump. I’m not even supporting the guy as an old caucasian guy. 🙂 So I don’t at all think she was put up to it by Trump himself. But I did hear him recently lament inbetween talking about his preference for aerosol hairspray over pump because pump spray can clump and then he has to shampoo again, that the cameras don’t show his crowds enough. And that he may have to plant a protester so when they are thrown out, the cameras will show his supporters chanting Trump or USA USA or whatever else it is they chant.
 
It seems to me that any presidential candidate having their own rally would have the right to eject anyone from some other camp causing any kind of distraction. If she wants to say something then let her get her own rally going like everyone else.

This isn’t a debate but a rally by SUPPORTERS which she wasn’t. I feel she was wrong and should apologize to Trump.
 
fred_conty said:
It seems to me that any presidential candidate having their own rally would have the right to eject anyone from some other camp causing any kind of distraction. If she wants to say something then let her get her own rally going like everyone else.

This isn’t a debate but a rally by SUPPORTERS which she wasn’t. I feel she was wrong and should apologize to Trump.
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If the issue was distraction, I don’t think nor have I seen anything to indicate she had done anything to interrupt his speaking; certainly not by any direct action of her own. I’ll certainly entertain solid evidence to the contrary.

The campaign might be within its rights to maintain order such as it wanted to. I’m also absolutely sure this is by far not the first time some sort of protest has happened at a political rally. The issue is the impression that the Trump campaign can’t handle a quiet and civilized expression of differing free speech and did so in an very hamfisted way. If this man wants to be President of a country where this right is guaranteed, this doesn’t show well. Trump the one that is under scrutiny to be President, not her and she carried herself pretty well at the level of an ordinary citizen voter.
 
She may have had courage to express her sentiments but not too much common sense in a way. It must have occured to her that something could happen because of all the terrorists. What was her Plan B if she was not safe? Did she think she could be a protest victim for a mob?

Didn’t anyone close to her give her some advice? Did she arrive at the event alone? Did she drive and park herself? Did she mingle with the other people without any “dirty looks”?
What message is being sent by her attending?

Without all the unknown details, it appears that the large crowd did not engage in action that was harmful to her - her safety was maintained. That is a good message about America.
 
She didn’t even say anything, she was just standing silently.
This stuff is getting scary.
 
Wow.

Isn’t the function of a campaign rally to convince voters to vote?

Wouldn’t one expect there to be a variety of people in that audience that hadn’t made up their minds?

If she had a ticket, she had a right to be there.

Mr. Trump wasn’t having a private cocktail or dinner party.
 
Sy_Noe said:
If she had not been a Muslim woman, I might have entertained the possibility that the campaign itself put her up to do this. Just because if I were a Muslim woman I certainly wouldn’t be in cahoots with Donald Trump. I’m not even supporting the guy as an old caucasian guy. 🙂 So I don’t at all think she was put up to it by Trump himself. But I did hear him recently lament inbetween talking about his preference for aerosol hairspray over pump because pump spray can clump and then he has to shampoo again, that the cameras don’t show his crowds enough. And that he may have to plant a protester so when they are thrown out, the cameras will show his supporters chanting Trump or USA USA or whatever else it is they chant.
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I expect it’s standard practice to send hecklers to the opposition rally. Remember one group even paid $5k to anyone who would disrupt Trump’s SNL performance.

A silent protester is a clever idea, to bad she didn’t read what Trump said before going.
 
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