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Muslim Americans offer to stand guard against anti-semitic attacks

March 3, 2017 at 4:32 am

In the wake of a spate of recent vandalism attacks on Jewish community centres and Jewish cemeteries, several Muslim Americans stepped up to offer their support to the victims via Twitter, the Huffington Post first reported.

Examples include veterans such as ‘The Muslim Marine’ who explained that he would protect Jewish centres and cemeteries because “Islam requires it”

https://twitter.com/MuslimIQ/status/836318977462833152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

In stark contrast to these reactions, President Trump responded to questions about anti-semitic attacks by discussing his electoral college victory:

and then, after being asked about it again, he told a jewish reporter to “sit down” and be “quiet, quiet, quiet”.