“Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming. May God ruin him.”
Some Arabic-speaking Christians use the word “Allah” for the God of Christianity; some (particularly the Coptic Christians of Egypt) studiously avoid doing so. For the sake of clarity, at this site I use the word “Allah” for the god of Islam and “God” for the Deity of Christianity. In any case, it is clear that Muftia Tlaib is referring to the god of Islam, and her prayer for Trump’s destruction is reminiscent of the all-too-frequently repeated Muslim prayer that Allah would destroy the Jews. There are imprecatory prayers in the Judeo-Christian tradition, but there are far less frequently used than they are in Islam.
“‘May God ruin Donald Trump’: Rashida Tlaib’s grandmother, 90, hits back at the President after row over congresswoman’s visa to Israel,” Dailymail.com, August 17, 2019 (thanks to Inexion):
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s grandmother has blasted President Donald Trump amid a controversy over the Democrat congresswoman’s visa to visit her in Israel.
‘May Allah ruin him,’ scoffed Muftia Tlaib, 90, in Arabic in an interview in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, slamming Trump for his remark that she was lucky not to have to see her granddaughter.
Israel on Thursday barred a visit by Rashida Tlaib and fellow Democrat Ilhan Omar that it had initially said it would allow — then reversed course the next day, saying it would let Tlaib visit her family in the West Bank on humanitarian grounds.
But the congresswoman rejected the offer, saying that Israel had imposed restrictions meant to humiliate her, without specifying what the restrictions were.
On Friday night, Trump tweeted: ‘Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down, a complete setup. The only real winner here is Tlaib’s grandmother. She doesn’t have to see her now!’
Muftia Tlaib responded: ‘Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming. May God ruin him.’
‘I was happy that she was coming, I was excited that she was coming, for her grandmother to see her,’ she continued, sitting in her garden in the village of Beit Ur Al-Fauqa.
Her son, Rashida’s uncle Bassam Tlaib, said the women had not seen each other since 2006.
He said: ‘She was going to slaughter a sheep when Rashida arrived and prepare her favorite food, stuffed vine leave [sic]…