Muslims around the world in a state of shock as Donald Trump wins
Muslims have been terrorising the world for 1,400 years without a single week’s break. And now they pretend that a new American president somehow will encourage them to do what they have always done. Always looking for someone to blame.
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‘Americans have just screwed the world yet again’: Horror and fear strikes the Muslim world as Trump wins after months of anti-Islamic rhetoric
- Trump called for ban on all Muslims entering U.S. after Orlando shooting
- Islamic scholar believes the result would act as a powerplay for terrorists
- Muslims across Asia are struggling to accept the news Trump had won
- Activists are afraid the Republican win will spark even more warfare
Published: 08:26, 9 November 2016
Horror and fear swept through Muslim
countries after Donald Trump was confirmed as President of the Unites
States after months of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
The Republican made his most controversial
remarks about Islam in December last year, sparking anger among the
world’s 1.5billion followers of Islam when he called for a ban on
Muslims entering the U.S. after a mass shooting in California.
Muslims across Asia were struggling this
morning to accept the news the populist candidate will take office in
the White House, saying that ISIS would be happy he won the presidency
race.
Horror and fear swept through Muslim countries after Donald Trump was confirmed as President of the Unites States after months of anti-Islamic rhetoric
‘Americans have just screwed the world yet
again,’ said Syed Tashfin Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi who has several
close friends in the US.
Thousands in the country watched in shock as the results rolled in and Facebook lit up with horrified reactions.
‘I’m very afraid, will there be more wars?
Will America attack Muslim countries again?’ asked Indonesian activist
Alijah Diete as Donald Trump edged closer to a shock victory in the US
election.
Trump sensationally won the White House
race this morning as Hillary Clinton phoned him at 2.30am local time to
concede she had lost.
She made the private call shortly after
sending her campaign chairman to give her supporters exactly the
opposite message, that it was not over – a humiliating and bizarre end
to a political career which had put her on the verge of being the first
female president.
Instead a jubilant Trump headquarters erupted in cheers as the news broke.
Zuhairi Misrawi, an Islamic scholar from
moderate Indonesian Islamic organisation Nahdlatul Ulama, reacted to the
news by saying it would be seen as a powerplay for terrorists across
the globe.
‘When the United States uses hard power, extremists gain a momentum,’ he said.
‘Those who will be the happiest when Trump wins are ISIS.’
Meanwhile, at Trump headquarters, running
mate Mike Pence was first to take the stage and said: ‘This is a
historic night. The American people have spoken and the American people
have elected their new champion.’
To chants of USA he said: ‘I come to this moment deeply humbled, grateful to God for his amazing grace.
‘I am mostly grateful to our president-elect, whose leadership and vision will make America great again.’
A teacher at a school in the United Arab
Emirates told MailOnline said when he broke the news of the result to
his class, children told him they would never be able to go to America
again.
He said: ‘It’s so sad. They are genuinely worried.
‘I didn’t think it would have this sort of affect.’
A senior Pakistani government official, speaking anonymously, called the news ‘absolutely atrocious and horrifying’ while others in the country also lamented the results.
‘I am disappointed to see Donald Trump
winning because Hillary Clinton is a good woman, she is good for
Pakistan and Muslims all over the world,’ said Ishaq Khan, 32, speaking
at an Islamabad market.
‘She was talking about world peace – but Trump was talking about fighting against Muslims.’
The Republican made his most controversial remarks about Islam in December last year, sparking anger among the world’s 1.5billion followers of Islam when he called for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. after a mass shooting in California
The bizarre ending to Clinton’s political
career came after Trump confounded pollsters at every turn, capturing
one ‘swing’ state after another in a line of toppled dominoes that
stretched across three time zones and now ends at the White House.
The last to fall was the Keystone State – after Florida, North Carolina, Georgia and Wisconsin all went to the Republican.
That gave him 274 votes in the electoral college – the winner is the first to achieve 270.
In Indonesia, the world’s most populous
Muslim-majority country, there was growing nervousness about how the
relationship with traditional ally the United States would shape up, and
how a Trump presidency would affect relations between America and the
Muslim world.
‘I am very concerned that the relationship
between the US and Muslim countries will become tense again,’ said the
female Muslim activist Diete, 47.
Nikken Suardini, who works for a law firm
in the capital Jakarta, was concerned about the proposed Muslim ban,
saying: ‘If he is elected president he will block Muslims from entering
the US – well, that’s just not fair.’
There was also concern that tough
anti-Islamic policies under Trump could fan Muslim extremism globally at
a time when the world is struggling with a growing threat of Islamic
militancy.
Members of the Islamic Defenders Front, one
group to have voiced reservations about a Trump presidency, take part in
a rally against communism in front of the presidential palace in
Jakarta
Some observers were more sanguine as the
70-year-old maverick appeared heading for the White House, hoping that
his populist rhetoric was aimed at winning votes and would not be
translated into tough xenophobic policies if he enters the White House.
Tahir Ashrafi, a senior Pakistani
government cleric, said: ‘We hope that Trump’s remarks against Muslims
were only to boost his campaign and he will realise that Muslims are a
large population in the U.S.’
A spokesman for Indonesian hardline group the Islamic Defenders’ Front said: ‘Muslims are foreigners to him.’
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