Trump urges Muslim to fight terror |
Though U.S. administration has become the toughest ever on travel ban from several Muslim-majority countries, President Donald Trump used his visit to Saudi Arabia, the country with Islam`s holiest site, to call for Muslim unity in the fight against terrorism in hisspeech on 21 May 2017.Trump will address the leaders of 50 Muslim-majority countries to cast the challenge of extremism as a “battle between good and evil” and urge Arab leaders to “drive out the terrorists from your places of worship,” reported The Associated Press. Trump, known for strong anti-Islamic rhetoric, will however be soft on Islam as a religion. He has been cautioned against his oft-used phraseology of “radical Islamic terrorism”. Trump has surprised his critics with a courtship Arabs, calling them allies and is going a step further by holding individual meetings with leaders of several nations, including Egypt and Qatar, before then participating in a roundtable with the Gulf Cooperation Council and joining Saudi King Salman in opening Riyadh`s new anti-terrorism center. The US President is reported to also stay away from mentions of democracy and human rights topics. This is the first overseas visit for Trump who is on an ambitious, five-stop swing that will take him through the Middle East and into Europe. He`s the only American President to make Saudi Arabia or any Muslim-majority nation his first overseas visit. Trump heads to Israel on 22 May.
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