Muslim leaders within the US, who supported Donald Trump to protest towards the Biden administration’s help for Israel’s battle on Gaza and assaults on Lebanon have been deeply disenchanted by his cupboard picks, reported Reuters.
“Trump gained due to us and we’re not pleased along with his secretary of state choose and others,” mentioned Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the ‘Abandon Harris’ marketing campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded ‘Muslims for Trump’.
Strategists consider that Muslim help was instrumental in serving to Trump win Michigan and should have factored into different swing state wins as nicely, reported Reuters.
Nonetheless, Trump has picked Republican senator Marco Rubio for secretary of state, although he’s a staunch supporter of Israel.
Earlier this yr, Rubio has mentioned that he wouldn’t name for a ceasefire in Gaza, and that he believed Israel ought to destroy “each factor” of “vicious animals” Hamas.
Trump has additionally nominated pro-Israeli conservative Mike Huckabee as the following ambassador to Israel. Huckabee is a robust supporter of the Israeli occupation of the West Financial institution and has referred to as a two state resolution in Palestine “unworkable”.
One other pro-Israeli choose has been republican consultant Elise Stefanik because the US ambassador to the United Nations, who referred to as the UN a “cesspool of antisemitism” for its condemnation of deaths in Gaza.
Rexhinaldo Nazarko, govt director of the American Muslim Engagement and Empowerment Community (AMEEN), mentioned Muslim voters had hoped Trump would select cupboard officers who work towards peace, and there was no signal of that.
“It looks like this administration has been packed totally with neoconservatives and intensely pro-Israel, pro-war individuals, which is a failure on the on the facet of President Trump, to the pro-peace and anti-war motion,” he mentioned.
Hassan Abdel Salam, co-founder of the ‘Abandon Harris marketing campaign’, mentioned, “It is like he is occurring Zionist overdrive. We have been at all times extraordinarily skeptical … Clearly we’re nonetheless ready to see the place the administration will go, nevertheless it does appear like our neighborhood has been performed.”
Massad Boulos, the Lebanese father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, met repeatedly with Arab American and Muslim leaders and had promised voters that Trump was a candidate for prace who would finish the wars within the Center East.
Throughout his presidential marketing campaign, Donald Trump made a number of visits to cities with massive Arab American and Muslim populations,saying that he beloved Muslims and referred to as Muslims for Trump “a stupendous motion”.
Lebanese-American Rola Makki, Muslim vice chair for outreach of the Michigan Republican Occasion, said that “I do not suppose everybody’s going to be pleased with each appointment Trump makes, however the final result is what issues.”
