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Displeasure with Biden's handling of Hamas-Israel war was on display at closed-door White House meeting
WASHINGTON — Just five minutes into a meeting with President Joe Biden, a Palestinian American doctor who has treated gravely injured patients in Gaza couldn’t bear to stay, so he left.
He was one of only six Muslim American community leaders who attended a small meeting on Tuesday with Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and senior administration officials at the White House.
Ahmad stressed that he wanted “to let the administration feel the way that we felt this past six months and kind of get up and walk away from them.”
Many others who had been invited to attend declined, according to multiple sources familiar with the outreach, underscoring the deepening tensions between the administration and the Muslim and Arab American communities over the president’s support of Israel in its bombardment of Gaza.
Another doctor who attended was taken aback when she showed Biden prints of photos of malnourished children and women in Gaza — to which Biden responded that he had seen those images before. The problem, the doctor said, was that she had printed the photos from her own iPhone.
"This speaks volumes to the dismissive nature of the administration when it comes to strong-willed action towards a permanent cease-fire or, at a bare minimum, a red line on the invasion of Rafah," Dr. Nahreen H. Ahmed told NBC News.
After [the meeting] concluded, the Muslim American community leaders departed and a small group of Muslim staffers participated in a scaled-back iftar dinner with Biden, Harris and other senior administration officials.
Several Arab American and Muslim American leaders rejected invitations in recent weeks, specifically citing their discomfort with participating in a celebration when so many in Gaza are facing starvation, two people who received invitations told NBC News.
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They are banking on the fact that come November the Muslim community will come crawling back to him having no other choice.
originally posted by: nugget1
Muslims don't need to vote for either candidate. That goes for everybody else; you don't have to vote for either if you find them both too distasteful.
Can you imagine what a statement it would make if everybody who felt forced to choose between the lesser of two evils just left the POTUS portion blank?
originally posted by: nugget1
Muslims don't need to vote for either candidate. That goes for everybody else; you don't have to vote for either if you find them both too distasteful.
Can you imagine what a statement it would make if everybody who felt forced to choose between the lesser of two evils just left the POTUS portion blank?
originally posted by: Dandandat3
Genocide Joe once again reached out to the Muslim community over his handling of the Israeli-Gaza war and unfortunate for the Biden campaign the olive branch was not received well.
originally posted by: Dandandat3
a reply to: SchrodingersRat
Just think about it ... he will be the president who wasn't supposed to win ... and then we can make up stories about how he "was" supposed to win.
originally posted by: GENERAL EYES
I'd vote Trump but I fear for my Transgender Friend and Family Member because of the rabid hatred that's been brewing because of media oversaturation on the issue.
My inlaws don't seem to mind the community, they're just sick of hearing about it on Fox.
I think we all are.