A recent
article posted by the BBC following Donald Trump’s rally in New Hampshire
focuses its attention on a supporter who states, “We have a problem in this country,
it’s called Muslims. We know our current president is one.” The article
expresses the disapproval of many substantial political figures and provides a
video of Mr. Trump attempting to laugh off the comments and to some degree even
entertain this supporter’s questions before jumping to a question from a
different supporter.
Mr. Trump has taken fire from not righting
this man’s statement. Mr. Trump’s actions demonstrate his lack of contempt for ignorant
and “hateful rhetoric” (Hillary Clinton) in America. Even people in the audience
behind Trump had mouths dropped and were nodding their heads in disagreement to
the supporter’s statement. No, Obama is not a Muslim and yes he was born in the
U.S. (A brief video on the history of attack on Obama’s national and religious validity
is shown within the article.)
What is
important about articles like these are the meta-issues beneath. We have a
country founded and evolved on the basis of freedom and strength of diversity, yet we are under constant threat from that diversity domestic and foreign. It’s
important to not discriminate, marginalize, or generalize a community of people within
the United States solely because of some association to extremists who do commit acts
of terrorism.
