Woman Wearing Muslim Head Scarf is Removed from Donald Trump’s Rally

On Friday night, Muslim flight attendant (now, there’s a tough job) Rose Hamid was escorted out of a Donald Trump rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina after she stood silently for a few moments being Muslim.

The woman, identified by CNN as Rose Hamid, 56, made her gesture when Trump suggested Muslim refugees fleeing fighting in Syria were affiliated with ISIS.

Trump caused an global furor in December when called on Muslims to be barred from entering the United States.

While she remained silent, Trump supporters surrounding her started chanting the candidate’s name and pointing at her – as previously instructed by Trump campaign staff in the event of protests.

“The ugliness really came out fast and that’s really scary”, she told after she was escorted.

Trump has come under fire from the public and politicians for repeated comments seen as planting fear of Muslims, including that they should carry specific identification cards and that mosques should be closed. Some people in the crowd were reportedly a bit hostile toward the woman, shouting profanities at her. Following the incident, she was then escorted out by the security. “I really don’t plan on saying anything”.

“I figured that most Trump supporters probably never met a Muslim, so I figured that I’d give them the opportunity to meet one” she said.

“One guy was saying, ‘Get out – do you have a bomb?”

A Muslim woman was escorted from a Donald Trump election campaign rally after staging a silent protest.

Hamid, who was wearing a hijab, did not say anything while Trump spoke, according to CNN.

“Because I don’t want to think of them as “those people, ‘” she replied. The people who were around me who I had communication with proved me right”.

“The people around me who I had an opportunity to talk with were very sweet”, she said.

“I have the honest belief that if people get to know each other one-on-one, that they’ll stop being afraid of each other”.

After her chaotic exit, Hamid remained optimistic about the character of most people – even those who shouted at her to “get out” – instead blaming Trump’s heated rhetoric and outsized influence. “It needs to be known”.