Johari Abdul-Malik – Imam Johari Abdul Malik comments on Trumps idea of Temporary Ban Muslim from entering U S
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A security network is being interviewed by a reporter on CNN's New Day. The reporter discusses the idea of banning Muslims from entering the United States, which is being criticized by politicians and the media. The reporter also talks about security footage and the recent incident at Fredericksburg, where a mosque was severed. The segment ends with a call to stand up for unity and prevent racism.
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Donald Trump is defending his call for a
temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.
I want you to take a look at
this exchange with my colleague, Chris Cuomo, on
CNN's New Day.
Our security network is the best in the
world. If you ask people who are in
the business of keeping us safe, they say
the idea of banning Muslims
does nothing to help and everything to hurt.
They're the experts. That's what they say. They
think this idea is stupid.
Until I well, when you say that so
I spoke before an audience last night, a
a massive audience last night. Right. The people
were there. Thousands of people inside, thousands of
people outside. They couldn't even get in
and got standing ovations as soon as this
was mentioned. Standing ovations.
Of course, you did, mister Trump. These are
your people. I mean, I have standing ovations
from very smart people. These are intelligent people.
These are great citizens.
These are people that are concerned about our
country until our country's representatives
can figure it out.
Discuss now with Imam Jahari Abdul Malik of
the Council of Muslim Organizations in the Greater
Washington Area. Thank you, Imam, for joining us.
You're doing okay? Thank you for having me.
What do you make of this debate, Imam,
going on now about banning Muslims from entering
the United States?
You know, I mean, first, let let's be
honest.
It it's not realistic.
It's not a rational,
response.
It is fundamentally
a response that is based in fear.
Fearmongering
has never been anything that has made America
great.
When we are afraid,
often we make,
the wrong decisions.
My concern is, how is it that we
can have a nation,
that is built on the love of immigrants,
on the engagement
of people coming from other places in the
world, bringing their skills and talents.
And then you have,
Donald Trump
who would speak against the US constitution
while saying that he would like to take
the oath of office, that he has to
uphold the constitution against You heard he's had
he's had his defenders come on here. Certainly,
he's had his detractors, but he's had people
who've defended him. You hear people in the
crowd cheering him. He was mentioned in the
Chris Cuomo interview. He said, listen. You know,
I had thousands of cheering people, many, many
cheering people. Can you understand, considering what has
happened recently, why people are afraid, and what
would you say to them?
No. I I wanna be clear.
I have been,
in my life as as a as a
Brooklynite.
I have been in many environments where I
have heard people
cheer for something
that was despicable.
This is just another example. If you have
people who like a particular kind of song
and that group is playing, then all the
people in the crowd will cheer when they
hear that particular melody.
It might be Islamophobic,
it might be homophobic,
it might be anti semitic.
It when I grew up, it used to
be okay to call somebody a wap or
a *.
And if you were in that group,
people would cheer you on. That's not the
world that we wanna live in anymore. Mhmm.
Unfortunately, I'm afraid that, this discourse is dragging
us back to an era in America
that we thought was long gone. Mhmm. I
want you to take a look at this
this security footage. It's a mosque. It had
severed pigs
heads thrown at at its doorstep. It's in
Philadelphia yesterday. And just 2 weeks ago in
Virginia, the zoning meeting on whether to build
a new mosque, this happened. Take a look.
Let me tell you something.
Nobody
nobody nobody
wants your evil cult in this country.
Right. And I'll tell you what. Right. Let
me tell you what. Right. I want it.
I will do everything in my power to
make sure that that does does not happen.
We don't want it. Because you are terrorists.
Every one of you are terrorists. I don't
care what you say. Okay. And I don't
care what you say. You can smile at
me. You can say whatever you want, but
every Muslim is a terrorist.
Listen. Some applauded, others disagree there. But are
you worried about when you when you see
things like that?
A group of us were invited to come
down to Fredericksburg
to talk to them about how to engage
their neighbors. Clearly, these individuals who are at
this hearing are not people who live in
that neighborhood, who know that mosque. They've been
operating for many years
as as an Islamic center. They only wanted
to expand.
And in the climate
of fear,
of intolerance
and I'm gonna I'm gonna be honest.
If if we take this this approach,
of accepting this kind of intolerance,
we will be no better
than ISIS
and the others who are intolerant
of other faiths and other ideas.
We've gotta work together. We've gotta come through
this
together. We've survived
many, many
episodes of racism before,
and it's now time for Americans to stand
up and say that we're gonna live by
what we believe in. Imam, we thank you
for joining us. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank
you. Is Trump supposed