An advocacy group is seeking an apology from Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump after a Muslim woman standing in silent
protest at one of his rallies was heckled and escorted out.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the call
for an apology after Rose Hamid was thrown out of the Trump rally at Winthrop
University in South Carolina on Friday.
Hamid said: ‘There was a guy who was saying: “Do you have
a bomb Do you have a bomb?” This is an older man.
‘And I said “No, do you have a bomb?”.’
Hamid said she was standing up in protest to a Trump
statement when members of the audience pointed her out by chanting ‘Trump,
Trump, Trump.’
CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad also called
on Trump to meet with American Muslim leaders to help stem the anti-Muslim
sentiment resulting from his rhetoric and that of other Republican presidential
candidates.
Hamid said Saturday afternoon she hadn’t received any
response.
‘I would like to hear what Trump has to say about it,’
she told The Associated Press by phone. ‘I’d like to hear because if they say
that it was because we were disrupting things, then I would like him to show
evidence of where the disruption came, because the disruption didn’t come from
me.’
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