My life experience and my world view are vastly different than many Muslim-Americans in this country because we don't grow up the same.
The only experience I have with discrimination personally was a bunch of black kids thinking I was chump in track because I was white (or at least not black).
I don't know what it's like to be labeled a terrorist because of the way I look or dress. I don't know what it's like to have people look at me funny since I was a kid. Or ridicule me. Or to feel I didn't belong and to wish I'd just leave. Look at the way Muslims are talked about on this board.
I don't know what drives people to do terrible things like that. Honestly, I'd like to think whatever the President says makes no difference to a Muslim kid who lives in a place where people are hostile to him. But, then that doesn't make sense.
The guy scapegoated Muslims, made them out to be either terrorists or abetting terrorism, called for a ban on their entry into the country, and people cheered.
You don't think a disgruntled kid on election night, having heard all of this, and already having gone through whatever he's gone through, didn't say "man, fuck all of these people" and started to get some fucked up ideas?