Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks
Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks
Summary
U.S. Muslim leaders who supported Trump to protest Biden’s stance on Gaza and Lebanon now feel betrayed by Trump’s pro-Israel Cabinet picks.
His appointments of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel, and Elise Stefanik as UN ambassador have drawn sharp criticism, with some accusing the administration of pursuing “Zionist overdrive” and “neoconservative” priorities.
Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the “Abandon Harris” campaign and co-founded “Muslims for Trump,” and Rexhinaldo Nazarko, executive director of AMEEN, feel betrayed by broken promises of peace.
“It’s like he’s going on Zionist overdrive,” said Nazarko, adding, “it does look like our community has been played.”
If only there was any way to have seen this coming based on literally every single thing he's said and done over the last decade!
It's so sad, but pointing this out as an obvious consequence would have been bullying. of course, and immediately shot down as such.
It's insane, honestly. An old coworker of mine who I sometimes stay in touch with is Muslim, and a Trump supporter. I've tried to figure out why, since Trump has never shown any meaningful support of Muslims, and all he could say is that the economy was good under Trump. Like... was having gas be $0.08 cheaper really worth having your actual family banned from entering the country? Not only was he already living paycheck-to-paycheck under Trump and still under Biden, but he was literally directly affected by Trump's Muslim ban. I don't know how you justify that with yourself.
I was called a racist for having the gall to criticize the Muslim movement to not vote Harris.
Me calling white christians stupid for voting for Trump because it actually hurts them is OK. But calling Muslims stupid for voting 3rd party or abstaining because it actually hurts them is racist.
Don't you know that pointing out the obvious consequences of electing trump before the election was actually supporting genocide?
"don't tell Muslims what to do" is what I would get every time I'd point out that Trump will do far worse.
And good luck protesting with Noem heading DHS along with SCOTUS’s ruling.
“It’s like he’s going on Zionist overdrive,” said Nazarko, adding, “it does look like our community has been played.”
You literally played yourself. No help from Trump. I can't think of a single goddamn thing he's said that was even vaguely pro-Palestine. Jesus Christ.
I actually think it was Russia pushing a lot of this again. It's exactly what they did to us Bernie supporters the last time we got the trump
This is what I’ve been saying all along. The Abandon Harris movement was orchestrated to disillusion voters and make them stay home. Just like what happened with Bernie bros.
The logic of it was completely flawed. And every argument about how strategic voting is important under first-past-the-post, and how Trump would certainly be a worse choice on the subject of Israeli genocide, was met with “maybe you can support genocide, but I can’t.” Which didn’t address the issue at hand at all.
Our country is full of rubes of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Some fall for Trump’s rhetoric and vote for him, others fall for shit like this and don’t vote.
All Russia did was push a narrative. The people that chose to believe it over unbiased news sources, friends and family, republicans, and their own eyes and ears watching Trump are fucking idiots.
Lol get fucked losers.
I'm done feeling sorry for dumbasses that shoot themselves in the foot then complain about the pain. Shut the fuck up and lay in the bed of shit you made.
Damn, they sure showed Kamala LMAOOOO
How much longer can the leopards keep eating faces?
As long as they want because there will always be stupid people who believe them.
Millions of people voted for Trump. The leopards have to wait around for the faces they've already eaten to digest. They're feeling bloated already and they're getting fatter and slower.
I heard leopards are getting obese on eating so many faces
They just keep running into faces.
If only there was a way to know that trump would fuck them. Of course you would have to be prescient.
These goddamned fucking idiots. This stupid country deserves every comeuppance it gets from this clown administration.
Doesn't his Sec of Defense nominee have a Deus Vult tattoo? Yeah, that doesn't bode well...
"Muslim leaders" who the fuck are even these people. a Philadelphia investor? yeah I bet he's super religious. gtfoh
Hassan Abdel Salam, a former professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and co-founder of the Abandon Harris campaign, which endorsed Green Party candidate Jill Stein, said Trump's staffing plans were not surprising, but had proven even more extreme that he had feared.
A professor even. They knew less about the coming administration than my uneducated ass whose not even residing in the country where all that is happening.
A Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump.
You didn't need to be religious to be a religious leader.
This should be in !nottheonion@lemmy.world.
Maybe !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world is better
I would argue it should go in imatotalfuckingmoron@onlydumbfuckswhocantread
They didn't think the leopard would eat THEIR face.
Idiots.
Heh. They sure will be greatly astonished once the first US troops ship to Israel. It's OK, because Israel is not in the NATO.
Deep down, I knew something was off about that face-eating leopard I adopted.
Trump's peace promises...
You can't have conflict if only one side survives...
I'd like to think Trump & Co don't think that way.
I'd like to.
Of course they do
I don't believe for one second that these "muslim leaders" care one iota about Palestine or Gaza. They care about the money Orange promised them. This is just posturing and fake outrage to cover their ass.
What money?
"our community has been played"...
[Insert Curb Your Enthusiasm theme music here]
I have a mental image of crowds of people that already had their faces eaten off — they’re just skulls covered in blood and leopard fur — and they are pointing and laughing at these people.
Lol
Sure seems weird that this level of glee over predictable bad things happening seem hyperfocused on the racial out group with the best reason to vote emotionally.
Then maybe they should have listened when they were told that this was the exact literal consequence of voting emotionally.
And people in the community were warning for months that this was the consequence of refusing to denounce genocide. But somehow you only want to blame the racial and religious out group who can't even be credibly blamed for losing the election. You guys were claiming for months they weren't important and should be ignored, and now that the election is over and the thing Democratic leaders were warning of happened, suddenly it's all their fault?
Wait, voting for the face eating leopards party isn't going to work out for them? "I am sure the openly racist party is not talking about me specifically. " Wait until they see the plans to deport them back to the front lines of the genocide.
Lol thank you OP for rewording the title. The original title is ambiguous and at first I thought the cabinet picked an upset muslim. Which incredibly, would be better news than what it actually says 😂.
Lol, wonder how many of them were swayed by twitch personalities like Hasan spending the last several months screaming not to vote for Harris because she wasn't left enough. Well, this is what you get.
Wow. So much anti-Muslim hate here. People hate Muslims for not voting for Trump. People hate Muslims for not voting for Harris. Both of them were down with genocide.