Not Americans? Trump’s charge astounds Bay Area Muslims

[Liberal_in_LA]

But when his 14-year-old sister began to talk about how she felt when presidential candidate Donald Trump questioned whether Muslims could blend into American culture, Ilyaas looked up, baffled.


“This is my place,” he said confidently. “I’ve been here my whole life.”

His sister, Hanan Mubarez, seated next to him in a tiny San Leandro mosque, quickly echoed his statement: “Yeah, I don’t feel the need to assimilate because it’s already a part of me. I was born and raised here."

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Two days after the mass shooting in Orlando that killed 49 people, Trump responded to a question about screening U.S. immigrants of Muslim faith by saying, “Assimilation has been very hard.

“It’s almost — I won’t say nonexistent, but it gets to be pretty close,” Trump said. “And I’m talking about second- and third-generation. They come — they don’t — for some reason, there’s no real assimilation.”

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/For-American-Muslims-claims-about-8337416.php?t=4e7f77d653

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1. trump hasn't assimilated much himself. he sounds like germany from another generation....

[Skittles]

2. WTF is wrong with him

doesn't he KNOW any Muslims? How about Hispanic folk, Jewish folk, etc.........he must live in a freaking BUBBLE

[Funtatlaguy]

3. Of course he does, it's all an act.

Who says that they "love the uneducated" ?????
This whole campaign was a huge troll from the start for shits and giggles.
It just went too far.
Now, he doesn't know how to get out of it.