Visit Original article (French): https://www.lalsace.fr/actualite/2016/11/08/un-imam-je-redoute-la-fracture-de-la-societe-americaine
The day after the Orlando attack that left 49 dead at the Pulse nightclub, he was called by the police. He was worried. “Actually, they wanted me to come as an imam for the Muslim victims,” says Imam Azhar Subedar, who works at an Islamic school in Florida and who was present Sunday, with his family, at Barack Obama’s rally in Kimmissee.
One of the Pulse officials even told him the unexpected: “I’m sorry for you,” he said, “but you’re going to be the target of Islamophobes.”
Words that have reinforced his desire to participate in the Democrats’ campaign. He fears “the fracture” of this American society that he says he “adopted for its freedom.”
Trump’s victory would be a “shock,” he concedes, “he polarizes and has managed in a few months to free up supremacist groups, the Ku Klux Klan and other lunatics. For me, they are just as dangerous as Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State organization!”