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After she stood up in silent protest during Donald Trump’s speech, a Muslim woman wearing a hijab was quickly escorted out of his campaign event by police on Friday.

The hijab wearing woman, Rose Hamid, a 56 year-old flight attendant who was sitting in the stands behind Trump, stood in protests after the Republican frontrunner suggested that Syrian refugees fleeing war in Syria were affiliated with ISIS.

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Trump supporters around her began chanting Trump’s name despite her silence — as instructed by Trump campaign staff before the event in case of protests — and pointed at Hamid and Marty Rosenbluth, the man alongside her who stood up as well.

As they were escorted out, Trump supporters roared — booing the pair and shouting at them to “get out.” One person shouted, “You have a bomb, you have a bomb,” according to Hamid.

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  1. Oise Oikelomen

    January 9, 2016 at 11:45 am

    The American right wing has always been discriminatory, looking down their racist nose at Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and now Muslims. What worries me is that never before has anyone, as far as I know, popularized bigotry as much as Trump is currently doing. And he seem not only to be getting away with it, but also to be getting credit for it. This might just be the most indicative symptom of American decadence.

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