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Undated: Muslims are people who
follow or practice
Islam, a
monotheistic
Abrahamic religion. Muslims consider the
Quran, their
holy book, to be the verbatim word of
God
as revealed to the
Islamic
prophet and messengerMuhammad.
The majority of Muslims also follow the teachings and practices of Muhammad (sunnah)
as recorded in traditional accounts (hadith).[28]
"Muslim" is an
Arabic word meaning "submitter" (to God).[29]
The largest denomination of Islam are
Sunni Muslims who constitute 85-90% of the total Muslim population[30][31],
followed by the
Shia who make up most of the remainder of Muslims.
The beliefs of Muslims include: that God (Arabic:
الله
Allāh) is eternal, transcendent and absolutely one (tawhid);
that God is incomparable, self-sustaining and neither begets nor was begotten;
that Islam is the complete and universal version of a primordial faith that has
been revealed before through many prophets including
Abraham,
Ishmael,
Isaac,
Moses, and
Jesus;[32]
that these previous messages and revelations have been partially changed or
corrupted over time (tahrif)[33]
and that the Qur'an is the final unaltered revelation from God (Final
Testament).[34]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslims
Undated: The Society of the Muslim
Brothers (Arabic:
جماعة الإخوان المسلمين
Jamāʿat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn), better known as the Muslim
Brotherhood (الإخوان
المسلمون
al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn), is a
transnational
Sunni
Islamist organization founded in Egypt by
Islamic scholar and schoolteacher
Hassan al-Banna in 1928.[8][9][10][11]
The organization gained supporters throughout
the Arab
world and influenced other Islamist groups such as
Hamas[12]
with its "model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work",[13]
and in 2012 sponsored the elected political party in Egypt after the
January Revolution in 2011. However, it faced periodic government crackdowns
for alleged terrorist activities, and as of 2015 is considered a terrorist
organization by the governments of
Bahrain,[14][15]Egypt,[16]Russia,[17]Syria,[18]Saudi
Arabia[19]
and the
United Arab Emirates.[20]
The Brotherhood's stated goal is to instill the
Quran and the
Sunnah as the
"sole reference point for ... ordering the life of the Muslim family,
individual, community ... and state".[21]
For many years the movement was supported by Saudi Arabia, with which it shared
some enemies[22]
and some points of doctrine.[23]
Today, the primary state backers of the Muslim Brotherhood are
Qatar and
Turkey.[24]
As a
Pan-Islamic, religious, and
social movement, it preached Islam, taught the illiterate, and set up
hospitals and business enterprises. The group spread to other Muslim countries
but has its largest, or one of its largest, organizations in Egypt despite a
succession of government crackdowns in 1948,[25][26]
1954,[27]
1965, and 2013 after plots, or alleged plots, of assassination and overthrow
were uncovered.[28][29][30]
The Arab
Spring brought it legalization and substantial political power at first, but
as of 2013 it has suffered severe reversals.[31]
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood was legalized in 2011 and won several elections,[32]
including the
2012 presidential election when its candidate
Mohamed Morsi became Egypt's first president to gain power through an
election,[33]
though one year later, following massive demonstrations and unrest, he was
overthrown by the military and placed under house arrest.[34]
White House cyber security adviser
Rudy Giuliani said on
Fox
News that President Trump came to him for guidance over the order.[86]
He said that Trump called him about a "Muslim ban" and asked him to form
a committee to show him "the right way to do it legally"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769
May 22: The difference
between "Islamic extremism" and "Islamist extremism"? One exhausted President.
President Donald Trump's substitution of the slightly
different terms during his highly anticipated speech in Saudi Arabia on
Sunday might go unnoticed by the average US listener.
June 20: Donald Trump didn’t send out a
tweet after the
terrorist attack in Finsbury Park in London that killed one and injured many
more. His silence after this attack was markedly different from his
immediate,
fevered tweeting after numerous other terrorist attacks in Europe – and that
matters.
August 17:
Hours after a van plowed through a crowd in Barcelona, Spain, and left at least
12 people dead, President Trump
tweeted condemnation of the attack and quickly followed with a statement
about U.S. Army Gen. John Joseph Pershing that historians describe as urban
legend.
November 29: Donald Trump has retweeted three
inflammatory videos from a British far-right [hate] group.
The first tweet ... claims to show a Muslim migrant attacking a man on crutches
... This was followed by two more videos of people [claimed] to be
Muslim.
A spokesperson from the Dutch Public Prosecution Service told the BBC
that the person arrested for the attack "was born and raised in the Netherlands"
and was not a migrant, as claimed in the social media post.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42166663
November 29: Trump's retweets were condemned
by Brendan Cox, whose lawmaker wife Jo Cox was murdered last year by an attacker
with far-right views.
Cox tweeted: "Trump has legitimised the far right in his own country, now he's
trying to do it in ours. Spreading hatred has consequences & the President
should be ashamed of himself."
Trump's tweets were also condemned by TV host Piers Morgan, who tweeted: "Good
morning, Mr President @realDonaldTrump - what the hell are you doing retweeting
a bunch of unverified videos by Britain First, a bunch of disgustingly racist
far-right extremists?
November 29: Theresa May condemns
Trump's retweets of UK far-right leader’s anti-Muslim videos ...
Prime minister’s spokesperson says president was wrong to share tweets
Trump’s decision to share the tweets was labelled “abhorrent, dangerous
and a threat to our country” by the Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn,
while several other members of parliament said his planned state visit
should be cancelled.
On Twitter Sajid Javid, the only Muslim
cabinet minister, tweeted:: So POTUS has endorsed the views of a vile,
hate-filled racist organisation that hates me and people like me. He is wrong
and I refuse to let it go and say nothing
November 29 (@sajidjavid)
December 8: Trump lifts refugee ban, but
admissions still plummet, data shows
In late October, President Donald Trump lifted a temporary ban on most refugee
admissions, a move that should have cleared the way for more people fleeing
persecution and violence to come to the United States.
Instead, the number of refugees admitted to the country has plummeted. In the
five weeks after the ban was lifted, 40 percent fewer people were allowed in
than in the last five weeks it was in place, according to a Reuters analysis of
State Department data. That plunge has gone almost unnoticed.
As he lifted the ban, Trump instituted new rules for tougher vetting of
applicants and also effectively halted, at least for now, the entry of refugees
from 11 countries deemed as high risk. The latter move has contributed
significantly to the precipitous drop in the number of refugees being admitted.
December 29: 'If he talks like a racist and
tweets like a racist, odds are he's a racist'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5222055/Black-news-site-sums-Trumps-racist-moments-2017.html -- 2018 --
Back to top January 26: Trump Offers Apology For
Retweeting Anti-Muslim Videos From British Far-Right Party ... Trump has been in
hot water with British Prime Minister Theresa May for retweeting in November
anti-Muslim videos that were posted by the deputy leader of the far-right
Britain First party.
"Trump said he was sorry for retweeting the anti-Muslim videos which sparked
outrage in Britain.
Trump told [host of Good Morning Britain Piers Morgan: 'If you're
telling me they're horrible racist people, I would certainly apologize if you
would like me to do that.'
February 15: US court says Trump travel ban
unlawfully discriminates against Muslims ... The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, on a 9-4 vote, became the second federal appeals court to rule
against the ban, finding that the Republican president's own words demonstrated
that bias against Muslims was the basis of the policy.
The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the ban, put in place by Trump with a
presidential proclamation in September, to go into effect while litigation
challenging it continues.
The 4th Circuit ruling went further than the earlier decision by the San
Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which found the ban violated
federal immigration law but did not address the question of whether it also
violated the Constitution. The Supreme Court already has said it will consider
both issues in deciding the legality of the ban in the coming months.
February 23: I Was a Muslim in Trump's White
House
When President Obama left, I stayed on at the National Security Council in order
to serve my country. I lasted eight days.
... the Obama administration always made me feel welcome and included.
The evening before I left, bidding farewell to some of my colleagues, many of
whom have also since left, I notified Trump’s senior NSC communications adviser,
Michael Anton, of my departure, since we shared an office. His initial surprise,
asking whether I was leaving government entirely, was followed by
silence––almost in caution, not asking why. I told him anyway.
If there is anything that three consecutive years of ISPU’s American Muslim Poll
has shown, it is that Muslims are not a monolithic community. From racial and
ethnic diversity to the various ways that individuals interact with society and
each other, Muslims in America are decisively multifaceted. This variety of
opinion and experience holds even when we would expect near uniformity, such as
opposition to President Donald Trump.
https://www.ispu.org/which-muslims-voted-for-trump/
