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Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared unfamiliar with the work and cause of Nobel laureate Nadia Murad as she pleaded with him to help the Yazidis of Iraq.Murad, one of thousands of women and girls from the ancient faith abducted by the Islamic State group as they overran swathes of Iraq in 2014, joined a group of survivors of religious persecution who met Trump in the Oval Office on the sidelines of a major meeting at the State Department.After Murad explained how her mother and six brothers were killed and that 3,000 Yazidis remained missing, Trump said, "And you had the Nobel Prize? That's incredible. They gave it to you for what reason?"With little pause, Murad, who was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year, repeated her story."After all this happened to me, I didn't give up. I make it clear to everyone that ISIS raped thousands of Yazidi women," she said, referring to the Islamic State group."Please do something. It's not about one family," she said.Trump, who has boasted of crushing the self-styled caliphate of the Islamic State group that once stretched across Iraq and Syria, also appeared at a loss when Murad asked him to press the Iraqi and Kurdish governments to create safe conditions for the Yazidis to return."But ISIS is gone and now it's Kurdish and who?" Trump asked, before later telling her, "I know the area very well."
and yes, that is Sam Brownback in the background there
Samuel Dale Brownback is an American attorney, politician, diplomat and member of the Republican Party who has served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom since February 2018
During a photo session Thursday with the US Special Olympics team, Trump said that he wished his supporters had not chanted at rally, “Send her back,” in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Probably rewatched the video of Ms. Omar's joy and pleasure over 9-11, when, you know, "some people did some things". Sad situation from someone who clearly cheated the system and likely was married to two people at the same time as well.
Quote from: sonofdaxjones on July 19, 2019, 02:37:46 PMProbably rewatched the video of Ms. Omar's joy and pleasure over 9-11, when, you know, "some people did some things". Sad situation from someone who clearly cheated the system and likely was married to two people at the same time as well.That's exactly how I'd expect you to react, Dax.
Quote from: sonofdaxjones on July 19, 2019, 02:37:46 PMProbably rewatched the video of Ms. Omar's joy and pleasure over 9-11, when, you know, "some people did some things". Sad situation from someone who clearly cheated the system and likely was married to two people at the same time as well.Dax, the king of taking things out of context. Only an idiot would struggle to understand what she meant by that comment.
When you’re old you can’t just change who you are to your core in a day and feel ok with it.
She was suggesting that all Muslims don't deserve to be treated like crap just because an extremist group carried out some heinous acts. Kind of like how you don't appreciate being lumped in with Wacky and Reno despite you guys backing the same jackass we have in the White House.
Quote from: waks on July 19, 2019, 05:26:30 PMShe was suggesting that all Muslims don't deserve to be treated like crap just because an extremist group carried out some heinous acts. Kind of like how you don't appreciate being lumped in with Wacky and Reno despite you guys backing the same jackass we have in the White House.Rather than referencing them as "some people", call them for exactly what they are/were, radical Islamist's. What she did is the functional equivalent of a Christian saying something along the lines of, "For a couple of centuries some people went into the Holy Lands and did some things", AntiFa would be fire bombing more buildings if that occurred.
Quote from: sonofdaxjones on July 19, 2019, 05:33:42 PMQuote from: waks on July 19, 2019, 05:26:30 PMShe was suggesting that all Muslims don't deserve to be treated like crap just because an extremist group carried out some heinous acts. Kind of like how you don't appreciate being lumped in with Wacky and Reno despite you guys backing the same jackass we have in the White House.Rather than referencing them as "some people", call them for exactly what they are/were, radical Islamist's. What she did is the functional equivalent of a Christian saying something along the lines of, "For a couple of centuries some people went into the Holy Lands and did some things", AntiFa would be fire bombing more buildings if that occurred.Nice pivot. Could she have called them extremists like they are? Sure. But that wasn't your initial complaint.And Christians do that all of the time, Dax. FFS, the president (albeit not a Christian but revered by many Christians) said there were good people on both sides of the Charlottesville protests when one side consisted of a group of angry white men marching through campus with rough ridin' torches and chanting "You will not replace us!"