美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周日在密歇根州波特休伦举行集会，为该州共和党候选人助选，其中包括共和党参议员提名人、前众议员迈克·罗杰斯。特朗普在集会上使用了伊斯兰恐惧症言论，指责与罗杰斯陷入胶着竞争的民主党参议员提名人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德是“圣战分子”，称他是“穆斯林兄弟会成员”，同时说罗杰斯是“地道美国人”。
President Donald Trump embraced Islamophobic rhetoric Sunday as he rallied in Port Huron, Michigan, in support of the state’s Republican candidates, including the GOP Senate nominee, former Rep. Mike Rogers. Trump alleged that Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee who is locked in a dead heat with Rogers, is a “jihadist,” calling him a “Muslim Brotherhood member” while saying Rogers is “apple pie.”
“任何有那种支持圣战分子记录的人都会被安检筛查，无法登机。他们当然不应该给他一个美国参议院的席位，”特朗普谈到埃尔-赛义德时说。“他将是唯一一位在被允许进入参议院前必须通过金属探测器安检的参议员。我要他通过金属探测器。”
“Anyone with that record of support for jihadists would be screened and unable to get a seat on an airplane. They certainly should not give him a seat in the United States Senate,” Trump said about El-Sayed. “He would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he’s allowed to go into the Senate. I want him to have a metal detector.”
随后，特朗普在介绍演讲嘉宾大卫·比默时，将2001年9月11日袭击事件与埃尔-赛义德相提并论。比默的儿子托德·比默是被劫持的联合航空93号航班乘客之一，在袭击中遇难。“25年后，密歇根州需要站起来战斗，就像托德那样，阻止一名圣战分子走进国会大厦，”特朗普说。比默随后延续了特朗普将参议院竞选与“9·11”事件类比的说法。
Trump went on to draw a comparison between the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and El-Sayed as he introduced speaker David Beamer, whose son, Todd Beamer, was a passenger who died on the hijacked United Flight 93. “Twenty-five years later, Michigan needs to stand up and fight just like Todd did to stop a jihadist from walking into the Capitol,” Trump said. Beamer went on to extend Trump’s comparison between the Senate race and 9/11.
“变了什么？有一点是，‘9·11’是突袭。现在我们国家和密歇根州发生的事？这不是突袭。我们能看到袭击正在逼近，并将在周二、11月3日这个战场州达到高潮，”比默在特朗普身后站在舞台上说道。“这次不同的是，敌人不是从国外来的。敌人就在这里，就在我们当中，本土恐怖分子，想要摧毁我们国家的本土公民，”他补充道。
“What has changed? Well, one thing is 9/11 was a surprise attack. What’s going on right now in our country and here in Michigan? It’s not a surprise. We can see the attack coming that culminates in this battleground state on Tuesday, November the 3rd,” Beamer said as Trump stood behind him onstage. “What’s different this time is the enemy has not come from abroad. The enemy is right here among us, local terrorists, local citizens that want to demolish our country,” he added.
比默曾出现在罗杰斯的竞选广告中。他对两人进行比较，声称罗杰斯“是个美国人”，而埃尔-赛义德不是，进而称他为“反美分子”。“阿卜杜勒有出生证明。出生证明上写着他是美国公民。你知道吗？
Beamer, who has been featured in Rogers’ campaign ads, compared the two men and claimed Rogers is “an American” while saying El-Sayed is not, going on to call him “anti-American.”“Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he’s a citizen of America. You know what? A birth certificate doesn’t make you an American,” Beamer said.
“出生证明并不能让你成为美国人，”比默说。“他的血是红色的。然而，他选择抹去生命中任何白色和蓝色的成分。我们绝不能、绝不能允许这个人入侵并占领我们的国家，”他补充道。罗杰斯和埃尔-赛义德都出生在密歇根州。埃尔-赛义德的竞选团队没有立即回应关于特朗普和比默言论的置评请求。特朗普指责埃尔-赛义德与穆斯林兄弟会有联系，该组织是一个成立于1928年埃及的国际逊尼派伊斯兰主义组织。
“He has blood that’s red. However, he has chosen to remove any strain of the white and blue part in his life. We cannot, cannot allow this man to invade and occupy our country,” he added. Both Rogers and El-Sayed were born in Michigan. El-Sayed’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s and Beamer’s remarks. Trump has accused El-Sayed of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an international Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt in 1928.
特朗普政府已将该组织在黎巴嫩、约旦和埃及的某些分支指定为恐怖组织。埃尔-赛义德多次否认与该组织有任何联系，并已谴责该组织。上周，埃尔-赛义德因在市政厅会议上与一名与会者发生激烈争执而在网络上走红，该与会者要求他谴责该组织。“你假设……因为我是穆斯林，我不知何故会效忠于非我们宪法的东西，”埃尔-赛义德上周对那名与会者说。
The Trump administration has designated certain chapters of the group in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt as terrorist organizations. El-Sayed has repeatedly denied any ties to the group, which he has denounced. El-Sayed went viral for a heated interaction last week with a town hall attendee who asked him to condemn the organization. “You assume ... that because I am Muslim, that somehow I would have some allegiance to something that is not our Constitution,” El-Sayed told the attendee last week.
周日，在NBC《会见新闻界》节目的采访中，罗杰斯被问及特朗普称埃尔-赛义德为“穆斯林兄弟会圣战分子”和“暴力恐怖分子”。被追问是否同意特朗普的描述时，罗杰斯说，这次选举关乎“我对阿卜杜勒”，并补充道，“我从未称他为恐怖分子。”罗杰斯此前曾因埃尔-赛义德的母亲法滕·埃尔科米几十年前在一家慈善机构的工作而质问埃尔-赛义德，美国政府后来将该机构认定为支持恐怖组织，导致其关闭。
Rogers was asked Sunday about Trump’s calling El-Sayed a “Muslim Brotherhood jihadist” and a “violent terrorist” in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”Pressed about whether he agreed with Trump’s characterizations, Rogers said the election is about “me versus Abdul,” adding, “I’ve never called him a terrorist.”Rogers has previously questioned El-Sayed about his mother, Fatten Elkomy, over her work decades ago at a charity the U.S. government later labeled a supporter of terrorist groups, leading to its closure.
埃尔科米当时未被指控有任何不当行为。特朗普助长了一项关于前总统巴拉克·奥巴马的虚假阴谋论，声称他不是美国公民并要求公布其出生证明。此后，他将“出生地阴谋论”式攻击用于其他政治对手，包括出生于南卡罗来纳州的前联合国大使妮基·黑利。
Elkomy was not accused of wrongdoing at the time. Trump helped popularize a false conspiracy theory about former President Barack Obama, claiming he was not a U.S. citizen and demanding to see his birth certificate. He has since repurposed “birther” attacks against other political rivals, including former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who was born in South Carolina.
特朗普周日提到奥巴马，后者周六在底特律为埃尔-赛义德和其他密歇根州民主党候选人举行集会助选。“我的竞争对手昨天来过这里，”特朗普谈到奥巴马时说，特朗普并未参选，奥巴马也没有参选。“我可以告诉你们，他没有像这样的群众。”
Trump on Sunday referred to Obama, who rallied in Detroit on Saturday on behalf of El-Sayed and other Michigan Democratic candidates. “My competitor was here yesterday,” Trump, who is not running for office, said about Obama, who is also not running for office. “He didn’t have a crowd like this, I can tell you.”