Hillary Post-Orlando Campaign Email: Don’t ‘Demonize Muslim People’

Published June 13, 2016 9:09pm ET



Hillary Clinton signed a fundraising email Monday that warned against “inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric” and called for “more than prayer” in the wake of Sunday’s terrorist attack in Orlando that killed 49 people and wounded even more. The likely Democratic nominee said that what America “absolutely cannot” do at this moment is “demonize Muslim people.”

“So many of us are praying for everyone who was killed, for the wounded and those still missing, and for all the loved ones grieving today. As a mother, I can’t imagine what those families are going through,” Clinton writes. “But we owe their memories and their families more than prayer. We must also take decisive action to strengthen our international alliances and combat acts of terror, to keep weapons of war off our streets, and to affirm the rights of LGBT Americans—and all Americans—to feel welcome and safe in our country.”

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