Prominent Muslim Group Challenges Trump to Debate; ‘We Will No Longer be Your Punching Bag’

Donald Trump speaks at his election night party in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Spartanburg, South carolina, 12 Jumadal Awwal 1437/22 February 2016 (MINA) – A prominent Muslim group is challenging Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump to a debate, after his streak of controversial comments about Muslims.

“Ever since you announced your run for Presidency of the United States, you have scapegoated the American Muslim community and other minority groups for all your perceived ills of America,” the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) wrote in a letter to the Trump campaign, according to the Hill’s report.

The group accused Trump and his supporters of being “scared of anything that is different.”

“You rely on the promotion of fear and Internet lies to fuel the flames of hate and divisiveness across our country. Well, we have news for you: We will no longer be bullied. We will no longer be your punching bag.” the letter continued.

The group said it has challenged Trump to debate a representative from the American-Muslim community “on the issues” he has “raised about Islam and Muslims.” Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) quoted The Hill as reporting.

At his last election rally Friday night Trump upped the ante in his remarks about Muslims, repeating the widely discredited story of American Gen. John Pershing, who was said to have halted Muslim attacks in the Philippines in the early 1900s by shooting the rebels with bullets dipped in pigs’ blood. (R07/R01)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)