"What do they say? ‘What are they going to do, vote for the guy that banned Arabs?’ And the answer is yes,' Amer Zahr, a Palestinian American comedian and Dearborn local, told me at one of the city’s many Yemeni cafés one afternoon. We had both arrived exactly 20 minutes late, matching each other’s tardiness, and he spent the early part of the meeting jokingly insulting the cuisine in Egypt, where my parents are from. Then he got down to it.
He noted with obvious disdain how Biden clumsily waved off dwindling support among Arab Americans, suggesting they will eventually be forced to rally behind him or otherwise risk helping Trump. 'The former president wants to put a ban on Arabs coming into the country,' Biden had said. 'We’ll make sure—we understand who cares about the Arab population.'”
'Imagine thinking it’s a good argument to say to a community that has lost 30,000 people, ‘Watch out for the guy that’s going to ban you.’ You’re really asking me whether I’m going to take a ban or a genocide? I’ll take a ban,' Zahr told me. (The Biden campaign didn’t reply to a request for comment.)"
~ Aymann Ismail
https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/04/donald-trump-joe-biden-2024-election-michigan-muslims.html
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