Here are some Muslim sports heroes (cc: Donald Trump)
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Your support makes all the difference.In his speech to the nation on 6 December, President Obama vowed to defeat Isis without targeting all Muslims, which he says would play right into the group's hands.
“Muslim-Americans are our friends and our neighbors, our co- workers, our sports heroes,” he said.
To which Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted this:
Here are some Muslim sports heroes, including a couple with whom Trump has been photographed.
Muhammad Ali
Mike Tyson (in 1992, Trump hatched a cockamamie plan to keep Tyson out of prison after he was found guilty of raping Desiree Washington).
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Hakeem Olajuwon
Bernard Hopkins
Muhammad Wilkerson
There are plenty more, but you get the idea.
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