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More from the crybaby invaders. After what the muzzies do to and say about other US citizens they think someone should have their back? No one has bothered them yet, they're here running their mouths, he only proposed to stop the invasion, so they can sthu too.

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Many Utah Muslims woke up Wednesday to "broken hearts and crying eyes" after the electoral victory of Donald Trump and a presidential campaign that repeatedly aimed threats and suspicions at their community.

Reactions ranged from shock, sadness and disappointment to a sharp sense of betrayal that large numbers of Utahns (sic)— many of them Mormons — supported the Republican candidate despite his inflammatory and stereotyping comments about Islam.

For some, decades of feeling safe in the state and viewing it as a welcoming place evaporated in a day with the Republican's 47 percent-to-28-percent election margin over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

"My fear level has gone from 100 to 1,000 overnight," said Noor Ul-Hasan, a Muslim and longtime Utahn heavily involved in community, political and interfaith efforts. "I did not expect it at all, not to this degree.

"I feel that the Mormons in this state did not have my back," said Ul-Hasan, who was a delegate to the this year's Democratic National Convention where Hillary Clinton claimed the party's nomination.

Ul-Hasan said she expected "at the very least" that Utah voters would have opted for conservative Evan McMullin in greater numbers instead of Trump, "to show that Mormons totally understand what it's like to be persecuted. And yet, they didn't stand by me."

She and others fear the result might encourage hate crimes against Muslims. Several said they hoped that Trump's campaign calls for a ban on Muslim immigration, police surveillance of mosques and rules that those already in the country register in a database would prove to be either empty election rhetoric or barred by U.S. law. (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially condemned the Muslim immigration ban proposal.)

"Thank God there is a Constitution, and there are laws and courts in place," said Imam Shuaib-ud Din, spiritual leader at the Utah Islamic Center in Sandy.

On its Facebook page, Utah's Muslim community posted a brief comment early Wednesday:

"We are all waking up to broken hearts and crying eyes," the post read. "Have faith. He is the best of planners."

It was accompanied by a link to advice on how to talk to Muslim children about Tuesday's election, quoting Hadith 19, part of the faith's sacred accounts from the life of Islam's Prophet Muhammad: "And if the whole world were to gather together in order to harm you, they would not harm you except if God had written so."

Nearly 20,000 Muslims call Utah home.

Many have lived in the Beehive State for generations, and the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization said Wednesday that, regardless of Trump's win, "American Muslims are here to stay."

"We are not going anywhere, and will not be intimidated or marginalized," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

"God willing," Awad said, "the American Muslim community will continue to mobilize to challenge bigotry, to uphold justice and to protect the freedoms and rights of all Americans."

Like officials at CAIR, one Utah community leader said he accepted the result of the U.S. democratic process and hoped the president-elect's style would change once he became commander in chief.

"The ball is in his court," said Nadeem Ahmed, board chairman of the Utah Islamic Society. "I don't know what will happen, but I think most people understood this was just political rhetoric to get him elected."

Still, Ahmed, said he was "more concerned about his racist remarks and comments not offending people enough."

http://www.sltrib.com/news/456...ps-win#disqus_thread

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Actually the Democrats have themselves only to blame.  Since they force fed Obamacare to everyone against total republican opposition, they have consistently lost in elections.  The other contributing factor to their defeat this year is that they ran the most flawed, corrupted candidate they have in their party, Hillary Rotten Clinton.  Just like the Democrats have themselves to blame due to their forcing Obamacare upon everyone, while exempting themselves, so Hillary hurt her chances with the private email server she used in attempts to conceal the Clinton Foundations dealings while she was Secretary of State selling influence and access to anyone willing to pay millions upon millions to the Clinton Foundation and then in turn Hire Bill to be on their boards or as some consultant or lobbyist.

I consider they got what they all deserved, well most of them did but then some deserved jail but they won't ever see it.  

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