*Muslims to Trump: 'We won't be your punching bag' * Posted By *Cheryl Chumley* On 02/22/2016
The Muslim Public Affairs Council, MPAC, has challenged Republican front-runner presidential hopeful Donald Trump to a debate, saying the billionaire businessman has done nothing but incite fear among Americans since he’s taken to the campaign trail and vowing to put a stop to his blunt rhetoric. “Ever since you announced your run for presidency of the United States, you have scapegoated the American Muslim community and other minority groups for all your perceived ills of America,” MPAC wrote in a letter to the campaign, the Hill reported <http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/270220-muslim-group-challenges-trump-to-debate>. The group also blasted Trump as being “scared of anything that is different than you.” The comments came on the heels of Trump’s repeat of a story of U.S. General John Pershing executing Muslim prisoners in the Philippines with bullets “dipped in pig’s blood,” the Hill reported. “You rely on the promotion of fear and Internet lies to fuel the flames of hate and divisiveness across our country,” the letter went on. “Well, we have news for you. We will no longer be bullied. We will no longer be your punching bag.” MPAC issued the challenge for a debate “on the issues … [he’s] raised about Islam and Muslims” right after another well-known Muslim group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, called Trump out for his comments about the “pig’s blood” bullets. “Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric has crossed the line from spreading hatred to inciting violence,” said Nihad Awad, the national executive director foor the Council on American-Islamic Relations, in a separate statement reported by the Hill <http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/270138-top-muslim-group-trump-inciting-violence-against-muslims>. “By directly stating that the only way to stop terrorism is to murder Muslims in graphic and religiously-offensive ways, he places the millions of innocent, law-abiding citizens in the American Muslim community at risk from rogue vigilantes.” Trump’s exact statements, made from South Carolina a few days ago, went like this: “[Pershing, in the early 20th century] took 50 bullets and he dipped them in pig’s blood. And he had his men load his rifles and he lined up the 50 people and they shot 49 of those people. And the 50th person, he said, ‘you go back to your people and you tell them what happened.’ And for 25 years there wasn’t a problem.” Snopes.com <http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pershing.asp>, the website dedicated to checking the truth of widely repeated stories, said the story was a legend. URL to article: *http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/muslims-warn-trump-to-back-off-the-fiery-rhetoric/ <http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/muslims-warn-trump-to-back-off-the-fiery-rhetoric/> * __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Visit Your Group <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmOGtqNXRsBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NTYxNzEyMjk-> [image: Yahoo! Groups] <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlZWdpMXRnBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQ1NjE3MTIzMA--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
