*Kareem Abdul-Jabbar came out swinging against the GOP presidential nominee during his remarks at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.
“Hello everyone, I’m Michael Jordan and I’m here with Hillary,” he told the crowd Thursday in Philadelphia. “I said that because I know Donald Trump couldn’t tell the difference.”
Abdul-Jabbar spoke on the final day of the convention under the theme of “Stronger Together.” The retired NBA star introduced a film about Captain Humayun Khan, one of the American Muslim soldiers who have died in combat since 9/11. His family had emigrated from the United Arab Emirates, and Abdul-Jabbar claimed that Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim immigration is “the very kind of tyranny [Thomas] Jefferson abhorred.”
He compared Jefferson’s defense of religious freedom to “the ‘religious freedom’ acts like those signed by [Trump running mate] Mike Pence, which are the very opposite, because they encourage religious discrimination.”
“At [their] core, such acts are the result of fear,” he said, concluding that Americans need to stand up and say “not here, not ever.”
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