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Summary

U.S. Muslim leaders who supported Trump to protest Biden’s stance on Gaza and Lebanon now feel betrayed by Trump’s pro-Israel Cabinet picks.

His appointments of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel, and Elise Stefanik as UN ambassador have drawn sharp criticism, with some accusing the administration of pursuing “Zionist overdrive” and “neoconservative” priorities.

Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the “Abandon Harris” campaign and co-founded “Muslims for Trump,” and Rexhinaldo Nazarko, executive director of AMEEN, feel betrayed by broken promises of peace.

“It’s like he’s going on Zionist overdrive,” said Nazarko, adding, “it does look like our community has been played.”

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[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

Lol thank you OP for rewording the title. The original title is ambiguous and at first I thought the cabinet picked an upset muslim. Which incredibly, would be better news than what it actually says 😂.

[-] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago

They didn't think the leopard would eat THEIR face.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 44 points 7 hours ago

Lol get fucked losers.

I'm done feeling sorry for dumbasses that shoot themselves in the foot then complain about the pain. Shut the fuck up and lay in the bed of shit you made.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 9 points 5 hours ago

I have a mental image of crowds of people that already had their faces eaten off — they’re just skulls covered in blood and leopard fur — and they are pointing and laughing at these people.

[-] TheBlue22 42 points 10 hours ago

Damn, they sure showed Kamala LMAOOOO

[-] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 9 hours ago

Heh. They sure will be greatly astonished once the first US troops ship to Israel. It's OK, because Israel is not in the NATO.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago

"Muslim leaders" who the fuck are even these people. a Philadelphia investor? yeah I bet he's super religious. gtfoh

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago

A Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump.

You didn't need to be religious to be a religious leader.

[-] boomzilla@programming.dev 9 points 4 hours ago

Hassan Abdel Salam, a former professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and co-founder of the Abandon Harris campaign, which endorsed Green Party candidate Jill Stein, said Trump's staffing plans were not surprising, but had proven even more extreme that he had feared.

A professor even. They knew less about the coming administration than my uneducated ass whose not even residing in the country where all that is happening.

[-] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago

I don't believe for one second that these "muslim leaders" care one iota about Palestine or Gaza. They care about the money Orange promised them. This is just posturing and fake outrage to cover their ass.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

What money?

[-] d00phy@lemmy.world 26 points 13 hours ago

These goddamned fucking idiots. This stupid country deserves every comeuppance it gets from this clown administration.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 126 points 16 hours ago

If only there was any way to have seen this coming based on literally every single thing he's said and done over the last decade!

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

And good luck protesting with Noem heading DHS along with SCOTUS’s ruling.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 50 points 16 hours ago

It's so sad, but pointing this out as an obvious consequence would have been bullying. of course, and immediately shot down as such.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

I was called a racist for having the gall to criticize the Muslim movement to not vote Harris.

Me calling white christians stupid for voting for Trump because it actually hurts them is OK. But calling Muslims stupid for voting 3rd party or abstaining because it actually hurts them is racist.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

"don't tell Muslims what to do" is what I would get every time I'd point out that Trump will do far worse.

[-] TrippaSnippa@lemm.ee 6 points 5 hours ago

Don't you know that pointing out the obvious consequences of electing trump before the election was actually supporting genocide?

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 44 points 16 hours ago

It's insane, honestly. An old coworker of mine who I sometimes stay in touch with is Muslim, and a Trump supporter. I've tried to figure out why, since Trump has never shown any meaningful support of Muslims, and all he could say is that the economy was good under Trump. Like... was having gas be $0.08 cheaper really worth having your actual family banned from entering the country? Not only was he already living paycheck-to-paycheck under Trump and still under Biden, but he was literally directly affected by Trump's Muslim ban. I don't know how you justify that with yourself.

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 24 points 13 hours ago

It's simple. Kamala said it's ok to be gay.

[-] boomzilla@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago

Jup. I saw interviews with muslim Trump voters saying exactly that.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 88 points 16 hours ago

“It’s like he’s going on Zionist overdrive,” said Nazarko, adding, “it does look like our community has been played.”

You literally played yourself. No help from Trump. I can't think of a single goddamn thing he's said that was even vaguely pro-Palestine. Jesus Christ.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago

I actually think it was Russia pushing a lot of this again. It's exactly what they did to us Bernie supporters the last time we got the trump

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 4 hours ago

All Russia did was push a narrative. The people that chose to believe it over unbiased news sources, friends and family, republicans, and their own eyes and ears watching Trump are fucking idiots.

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

This is what I’ve been saying all along. The Abandon Harris movement was orchestrated to disillusion voters and make them stay home. Just like what happened with Bernie bros.

The logic of it was completely flawed. And every argument about how strategic voting is important under first-past-the-post, and how Trump would certainly be a worse choice on the subject of Israeli genocide, was met with “maybe you can support genocide, but I can’t.” Which didn’t address the issue at hand at all.

Our country is full of rubes of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Some fall for Trump’s rhetoric and vote for him, others fall for shit like this and don’t vote.

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

I think we should really stop blaming Russian propaganda and focus on blaming ourselves. There's too large a portion of the US population who lap up easily refuted news and opinions. Russia didn't make Americans stupid we did. Russia didn't divide America, its been divided since its creation.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

I think there is plenty of blame to go around. In fact, I think the problem since the election has been that people refuse to admit that. As if there has to be one single entity you can point your finger at to blame everything on.

And certainly don't consider yourself culpable in any way, shape or form.

I mean I consider myself culpable and I voted for Harris. But I also didn't do anything to convince any of my neighbors to do it. I never phone banked or anything.

And yet somehow the "don't vote for Harris because genocide" people think they have absolutely nothing to do with people not voting for Harris and it's certainly not their fault in any way that she lost.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

There is always a bunch of relevant factors in the outcome of a national election. It's the job of the candidate to overcome those hurdles. If they don't, then they were the wrong candidate. It's not about blame, it's about how we do better next time.

I'd much prefer that Harris won, but it does warm my heart a bit that the Democratic establishment got fucked for their manipulation of the 2020 primary and subsequent forcing of a Harris run. If we are talking blame, then that's where it belongs. Fuck the Clintons, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and the rest of the DNC corporate lineup.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

What next time?

All of you people who have been saying that the Democrats need to learn their lesson for next time need to come to terms with the fact that come January, you will be living in a fascist dictatorship.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 2 points 6 hours ago

Until the next election is cancelled, I will be working under the assumption that it will happen. Fuck that defeatist crap.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Have fun with that. I won't be with you to wait and see if that happens. There's a reason that there's almost no one on the German side of my family tree.

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[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 27 points 16 hours ago

Doesn't his Sec of Defense nominee have a Deus Vult tattoo? Yeah, that doesn't bode well...

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 44 points 17 hours ago

How much longer can the leopards keep eating faces?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Millions of people voted for Trump. The leopards have to wait around for the faces they've already eaten to digest. They're feeling bloated already and they're getting fatter and slower.

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[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 7 points 12 hours ago

Wait, voting for the face eating leopards party isn't going to work out for them? "I am sure the openly racist party is not talking about me specifically. " Wait until they see the plans to deport them back to the front lines of the genocide.

[-] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 35 points 17 hours ago

If only there was a way to know that trump would fuck them. Of course you would have to be prescient.

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