Boxing icon Muhammad Ali and NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar both lashed out at Trump for his criticism of their beloved religion. Abdul-Jabbar’s response came by way of an essay he offered to TIME magazine in where he essentially compares Trump to ISIS terrorists.
From TIME:
While Trump is not slaughtering innocent people, he is exploiting such acts of violence to create terror here to coerce support. As I have written before, his acts could be interpreted as hate crimes. He sounds the shrill alarm of impending doomsday even though since 9/11, about 30 Americans a year have been killed in terrorist attacks worldwide — as The Atlantic pointed out, “roughly the same number as are crushed to death each year by collapsing furniture.” Trump’s irresponsible, inflammatory rhetoric and deliberate propagation of misinformation have created a frightened and hostile atmosphere that could embolden people to violence. He’s the swaggering guy in old Westerns buying drinks for everyone in the saloon while whipping them up for a lynching.
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