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Gabriel said Sarsour’s comments could constitute “calls for violence to those who want to commit jihad against America, to the home-grown terrorists, to the radicals who want to kill the president as well as people like you and me, Laura, who are law-abiding citizens.”
The imam rejected Gabriel’s interpretation of Sarsour’s use of the word “jihad.”
“You are hate-monger number one in the United States,” Elahi said. “People like this Brigitte are always talking about hate and hate-mongering and negative.”
“If [jihad] means to promote violence, we are, of course, you know, condemn that,” Elahi concluded. “But if it means to struggle against ignorance and arrogance and injustice and racism and poverty and war and terrorism, then we are on the same page.”
Ingraham, however, argued that if people like Sarsour want to carry out a jihad and do not want to assimilate into the country to which they have immigrated, then they shouldn’t have come to the U.S. in the first place.
“If people don’t like this country, if we are white supremacists, [an] evil, horrible, rotten country, I do not know why we have millions and millions of people who want to come here, including many people from Muslim countries,” Ingraham said. “They seem to want to come here, want to settle all over the United States, and yet they come here and they say, ‘We don’t want to assimilate. We want to jihad.’ I don’t get it. Don’t come here. If it’s a rotten, awful country, don’t come here.”[lz_pagination]
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