Muslim community awaits as Trump yet to condemn Minnesota mosque bombing

A makeshift bomb tore through a Minnesota mosque early Saturday morning and US President Donald Trump has used Twitter to communicate to the American people since then, however, there has been no mention of the attack by the POTUS.

Trump's yet to condemn the mosque attack at the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington, where several people were gathering for prayer. Nobody was injured, authorities said, but the attack has left the Muslim community feeling unsettled, reported The Washington Post.



"We are wondering why President Trump has not tweeted about this. He seems to want to tweet about security and terror issues," Asad Zaman, director of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, told BuzzFeed News.

Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, in a statement said, "Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes."

On Tuesday, White House national security adviser, defended Trump’s silence in an interview with MSNBC, suggesting it was prudent to wait until the ideological motive of the attack was known.

"There’s a great rule: all initial reports are false," Gorka said in the interview. "You have to check them. You have to find out who the perpetrators are. We’ve had a series of crimes committed -- alleged hate crimes -- by right-wing individuals in the last six months that turned out to actually have been propagated by the left."



But many Muslims and others want Trump to denounce the attack.

Mohamed Omar, executive director of targeted mosque said, "He (Trump) is the president of this country, and this happened to us. He has to come here and at least express his feelings and say this is bad."

Trump has been lambasted over being prejudicial when it comes to the rights of minorities and continues receiving backlash from the concerned citizens.