Donald Trump is once again making headlines in the wake of the deadly shooting at an Orlando nightclub, and a group of protesters here in Vancouver is making their concerns known.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee is now calling for racial profiling as a preventative tactic to avoid incidents like the Orlando shooting that took the lives of 49 people last weekend, becoming the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
“I think profiling is something that we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country,” Trump said in a phone interview with CBS show “Face the Nation.”
“Other countries do it, you look at Israel and you look at others, they do it and they do it successfully. And I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to start using common sense and we have to use our heads,” concluded Trump.
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Here in Vancouver, a Muslim activist got a group to rally outside the Trump Tower at Georgia and Thurlow on Sunday, with a strong message for Trump to stop stirring up emotions.
“He is trying to divide us and marginalize the communities of Muslims and Queers,” activist Imtiaz Popat told Global News. “So we are here standing united holding hands, saying that we are not going to be divided, sending a message to Trump and anyone like Trump with the same message, because what he says affects us here as well.”
Popat says Islamophobia is not acceptable.
“We are here at the Trump tower to say that we don’t appreciate what he is saying,” he adds.
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