Sajid Tarar, who gave the closing prayer at the Republican National Convention, is the founder of a group that calls itself “American Muslims for Trump.”
Tarar set off a Twitter firestorm and sparked media curiosity when he strode on the Republican convention stage and gave a benediction that was interrupted by a man shouting against Islam.
Trump has controversially proposed to ban non-citizen Muslims from traveling to the United States and has made railing against radical Islam a central plank of his campaign.
Tarar is from Pakistan and, according to The Washington Post, attended law school in the United States after moving to America, and he became a U.S. citizen in the 1990s.
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