Alleged Democratic candidate Joe Biden spoke at a summit of Muslim voters on Monday, telling them that he wanted US schools to teach more about Islam.
“I wish we had taught more in our schools about the Islamic faith. I wish we had talked about all the great denominational religions. It is one of the great denominational religions,” Biden said Monday at the “Million Muslim Votes” summit hosted by Emgage Action.
Emgage Action, the country’s largest American Muslim PAC, backed Biden in April after backing Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primaries.
Biden told voters he would end President Trump’s travel ban that affects Muslim-majority countries on the first day of his presidency and blamed the current occupant of the White House for “an excessive increase in Islamophobia.”
Biden also said that “he will not write love letters to dictators” and that he will work to “meet the moral demands of the humanitarian crisis in Syria, Yemen and Gaza.” He said he would advocate for the rights of Palestinians and Israelis to have a state of their own, among other priorities.
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Several American Muslim officials, including Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Representative Andre Carson, a Democrat from Indiana, signed a letter organized by Emgage Action supporting Biden on Monday.
“Our number one goal is to remove Donald Trump from office and replace him with someone who can begin to heal our nation,” the letter said. “A Biden administration will advance the nation on many of the issues that interest us,” he said, citing racial justice, affordable health care, climate change and immigration.
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Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee, did not attend any Emgage events in 2016 and former President Barack Obama was “cautious” to do so, notes The Washington Post.
