The Trump horror goes on. He isn't just a Republican front runner now but he is very much a reality where we can see a Trump presidency in 2017. As I had mentioned in the past that I don't see Trump as a person but as a movement that can only be compared to the Nazi movement in post world war I Germany. Anyway, couple of days back, Trump has said: "I think Islam hates us". He also vowed to restore waterboarding torture. When asked about the Geneva convention, he replied: "Everybody Believes in the Geneva Convention Until They Start Losing".
Among other strategies, Donald Trump's strategy is:
"The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families...They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families."
People are getting surprised how a person who is the front runner of the Republican party and potentially be the president of the United States of America, can say such a outrageous, racist and inhuman things. The Imam at the yesterday's Jum'a khutba, said that how a person with such an ignorance and low-intellect (referring to the fact that "Islam hates us" doesn't make any linguistic sense at all) can be running for presidency. He compared the presidency of Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. But is this all so surprising? Didn't we have the president who's name was George W. Bush? Just watch some of his speeches (you can watch President George Bush's dumb moments). America had presidents with much lesser-intellect.
But how about the inhumanity or the cruelty Donald trump is suggesting? You will find much more horrific policies from the presidents like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington that they had towards the indigenous native American population. And don't forget the infamous internments of American citizens of Japanese ancestry by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president who is one of the most praised president in the history of the USA.
Here's a couple excerpts but there are abandon in the history that you can find if you are interested in history.
Orders of George Washington to General John Sullivan, May 31, 1779
“The immediate objectives are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements and the capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible. It will be essential to ruin their crops in the ground and prevent their planting more."
President Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, December 29, 1813
“This unfortunate race, whom we had been taking so much pains to save and to civilize, have by their unexpected desertion and ferocious barbarities justified extermination and now await our decision on their fate.”
So, we can't be fooled that Donald Trump is an exception in the history. This can very much happen. The only concern is that in this age of the integrated world, any such kind of atrocity on a race or religion that was done in the past would have a global effect which might rip the world apart through the devastation of another, and probably the last, world war.
As a side note: if Donald Trump becomes the nominee from the Republican party and runs for presidency, you would probably see my on the street campaigning against trump during the election, regardless of it's impact of making a dent or not in the election outcome. The motto would be to "Dump the Trump" ( borrowed the phrase from the speech of Imam Suhaib Webb)
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