'Not a Christian': 5 responses to Trump's 'praise' of 'Allah' on Easter Sunday
4. CAIR: 'A disturbing willingness to weaponize religious language’
The Islamic advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) urged U.S. lawmakers to cut short their vacation over President Trump’s comments Sunday.
“President Trump’s deranged mocking of Islam and his threats to attack civilian infrastructure in Iran are reckless, dangerous, and indicative of a mindset that shows indifference to human life and contempt for religious beliefs,” the organization said in a statement.
Warning that the president’s comments “follow a long pattern of anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies,” CAIR said Trump’s use of the Arabic word for god was “disturbing” and offensive to Muslims.
“The casual use of ‘Praise be to Allah’ in the context of violent threats reflects a disturbing willingness to weaponize religious language while simultaneously denigrating Islam and its followers,” wrote CAIR, which was named an unindicted co-conspirator by the US Department of Justice in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation trial.
