Trump Condemned At Ali Funeral

[Lakhota]

The most political athlete ever gets the most political funeral possible.

Rabbi Michael Lerner, a political activist and the editor of Tikkun Magazine, didn’t hesitate to get political while speaking at the funeral of sports legend Muhammad Ali, who died at age 74 on June 3.

Lerner condemned Trump in his remarks, criticizing the business mogul’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

“We will not tolerate politicians or anyone else putting down Muslims and blaming Muslims for a few people,” Lerner said.

Lerner said he formed a relationship with Ali in the 1960s, when both were indicted by the federal government for “our various stands against the war in Vietnam.”

“There was something about Muhammad Ali that was different,” Lerner said. “At the key moment when he had that recognition [as a boxer], he used it to stand up to an immoral war and say, ‘No, I won’t go.’”

Speaker At Muhammad Ali’s Funeral Gets Political, Condemns Trump

Trump is doing a fine job of pissing off all ethnic groups.

 

[TemplarKormac]

The most political athlete ever gets the most political funeral possible.

Rabbi Michael Lerner, a political activist and the editor of Tikkun Magazine, didn’t hesitate to get political while speaking at the funeral of sports legend Muhammad Ali, who died at age 74 on June 3.

Lerner condemned Trump in his remarks, criticizing the business mogul’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

“We will not tolerate politicians or anyone else putting down Muslims and blaming Muslims for a few people,” Lerner said.

Lerner said he formed a relationship with Ali in the 1960s, when both were indicted by the federal government for “our various stands against the war in Vietnam.”

“There was something about Muhammad Ali that was different,” Lerner said. “At the key moment when he had that recognition [as a boxer], he used it to stand up to an immoral war and say, ‘No, I won’t go.’”

Speaker At Muhammad Ali’s Funeral Gets Political, Condemns Trump

Trump is doing a fine job of pissing off all ethnic groups.

Quite a dishonor to Ali's memory to use his funeral as a platform to make political statements.

 

[HenryBHough]

Kinda funny - the thought of a Rabbi having much to say at a black Muslim's apparently Christian funeral......or Was Cassius' "new" first name just another sham?

 

[Lakhota]

The most political athlete ever gets the most political funeral possible.

Rabbi Michael Lerner, a political activist and the editor of Tikkun Magazine, didn’t hesitate to get political while speaking at the funeral of sports legend Muhammad Ali, who died at age 74 on June 3.

Lerner condemned Trump in his remarks, criticizing the business mogul’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

“We will not tolerate politicians or anyone else putting down Muslims and blaming Muslims for a few people,” Lerner said.

Lerner said he formed a relationship with Ali in the 1960s, when both were indicted by the federal government for “our various stands against the war in Vietnam.”

“There was something about Muhammad Ali that was different,” Lerner said. “At the key moment when he had that recognition [as a boxer], he used it to stand up to an immoral war and say, ‘No, I won’t go.’”

Speaker At Muhammad Ali’s Funeral Gets Political, Condemns Trump

Trump is doing a fine job of pissing off all ethnic groups.

Quite a dishonor to Ali's memory to use his funeral as a platform to make political statements.

Ali would have approved.

 

[TemplarKormac]

The most political athlete ever gets the most political funeral possible.

Rabbi Michael Lerner, a political activist and the editor of Tikkun Magazine, didn’t hesitate to get political while speaking at the funeral of sports legend Muhammad Ali, who died at age 74 on June 3.

Lerner condemned Trump in his remarks, criticizing the business mogul’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

“We will not tolerate politicians or anyone else putting down Muslims and blaming Muslims for a few people,” Lerner said.

Lerner said he formed a relationship with Ali in the 1960s, when both were indicted by the federal government for “our various stands against the war in Vietnam.”

“There was something about Muhammad Ali that was different,” Lerner said. “At the key moment when he had that recognition [as a boxer], he used it to stand up to an immoral war and say, ‘No, I won’t go.’”

Speaker At Muhammad Ali’s Funeral Gets Political, Condemns Trump

Trump is doing a fine job of pissing off all ethnic groups.

Quite a dishonor to Ali's memory to use his funeral as a platform to make political statements.

Ali would have approved.

Now you speak for the dead? Put away the Weegie board Lakhota.

 

[Sunni Man]

The Rabbi using Muhammad Ali's funeral as a political soapbox was very low class. .......

 

[amrchaos]

The Rabbi using Muhammad Ali's funeral as a political soapbox was very low class. .......

Not if it was a political statement Ali deeply believed in.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Alas, poor Lakhota, gone from her thread as quickly as she created it.

 

[DGS49]

Ali "deeply believed in."

You gotta be kidding. He was about as deep as the kiddie pool.