A Muslim woman was kicked out of a Donald Trump presidential campaign rally after staging a silent protest against the Republican frontrunner, who has called for a ban on Muslims entering the US.
A Muslim woman was kicked out of a Donald Trump presidential campaign rally after staging a silent protest against the Republican frontrunner, who has called for a ban on Muslims entering the US.
Television footage from the event in South Carolina shows the woman, named as Rose Hamid, a 56-year-old flight attendant, wearing a head scarf and loose fitting green shirt reading “Salam. I come in peace.” She stood in silence looking at the podium as the rest of the crowd sat.
Later, she was escorted out as Trump supporters waved placards bearing his name in her face and chant for him. Ms Hamid said one supporter of the billionaire real-estate mogul bawled at her: “You have a bomb, you have a bomb.”
“The ugliness really came out fast and that’s really scary,” Ms Hamid told CNN after Friday night’s rally.
Mr Trump, who leads the polls for the Republican nomination for the White House, ignited a global firestorm in December when he called for the temporary ban on Muslims entering the US, following an attack in California by a radicalised Muslim couple that left 14 people dead.
“There is hatred against us that is unbelievable,” Mr Trump told the rally, according to CNN, after Ms Hamid and several others were ejected.
