RELIGION/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Since a makeshift bomb tore through a Minnesota mosque early Saturday [8-5-17] morning, President Trump has used Twitter, his preferred platform for communicating with the American people, to rail about ‘fake news,’ attack a Democratic senator from Connecticut and insist that he’s working hard while vacationing in New Jersey.
One topic Trump has yet to address: the mosque attack at the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington, where several people were gathering for prayer. Nobody was injured, authorities said, but the attack has left the Muslim community feeling unsettled.
And Minnesotans and others are still waiting for the president to condemn the attack.
‘Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes,’ Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in a statement calling for Trump to condemn the attack, according to the Los Angeles Times…
On Sunday, the Department of Homeland Security released a statement saying that its acting secretary, Elaine Duke, was ‘aware’ of the explosion and that the agency was in ‘close contact’ with investigators and community leaders.”
-Katie Mettler, “Trump still has not condemned the Minnesota mosque bombing. Muslim leaders are waiting.,” The Washington Post online, Aug. 8, 2017 07:18am