Muslim woman ejected from Trump rally
CNN
A Muslim woman wearing a hijab was escorted out of Donald Trumps campaign event on Friday by police after she stood up in silent protest during Trumps speech, reports CNN from Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Rose Hamid, a 56-year-old flight attendant sitting in the stands directly behind Trump, stood up Friday during Trumps speech when the Republican front-runner suggested that Syrian refugees fleeing war in Syria were affiliated with ISIS.
Trump has previously called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US.
Despite her silence, Trump supporters around her began chanting Trumps nameas instructed by Trump campaign staff before the event in case of protestsand pointed at Hamid and Marty Rosenbluth, the man alongside her who stood up as well.
As they were escorted out, Trump supporters roaredbooing the pair and shouting at them to get out. One person shouted, You have a bomb, you have a bomb, according to Hamid.
The ugliness really came out fast and thats really scary, Hamid told CNN in a phone interview after she was ejected.
Major Steven Thompson of the Rock Hill Police Department told CNN Hamid was kicked out of the event because the campaign told him beforehand that anybody who made any kind of disturbance should be escorted out.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment asking why Hamid was escorted out of the venue.
After Hamid and three others, all wearing stars reminiscent of those worn by Jews during the Holocaust, were escorted out by police and Trump campaign officials, Trump commented on the disturbance.
There is hatred against us that is unbelievable, Trump said. Its their hatred, its not our hatred.
Before the event, Hamid told CNN that she didnt plan to shout or disrupt the eventshe simply wanted to give Trump supporters a glimpse of what Muslims are like.
I figured that most Trump supporters probably never met a Muslim so I figured that Id give them the opportunity to meet one, she said, wearing a shirt that read Salam, I come in peace. I really dont plan to say anything. I dont want to be disrespectful but if he says something that I feel needs answering I mightwell just see what strikes me.
Hamid joined a group of peoplesome friends, others strangerswho wanted to silently protest Trumps Islamophobic proposals.
Several of those other people attended Trumps rally in Aiken, South Carolina, last month, including Jibril Hough. Unlike Hamid, Hough did not stay silent, shouting Islam is not the problem as Trump spoke about radical Islamic extemism.
