Donald Trump not real face of the US: American entrepreneur

ALIGARH (UP): People like Donald Trump, one of the Republican presidential candidates in the US, symbolise intolerance and do not represent the generous and inclusive-minded people of that country, a leading American entrepreneur said today.

Frank Islam, chairman of the Frank Islam Investment Group, said the people in the US are large-hearted and it was their inclusiveness and openness which has given place to immigrants like him to play a meaningful role in the development of a pluralistic American society.

"People like Donald Trump symbolise intolerance but they are not the real face of America," Islam said.

Islam, an alumnus of the Aligarh Muslim University, was speaking to reporters here after laying the foundation stone of the Rs 18 crore management complex at AMU, for which he has donated a corpus of USD two million.

He said if any country in the world wishes to acquire greatness, it has to empower the weakest and marginalised sections of its society.

In reply to a question, he said for India to become great, it was the education granted to its marginalised sections including Parsis, Dalits and Muslims, which would not only change the landscape of the country but the whole world.

To another query on the rise of Islamophobia in the West, he said it was unfortunate that extremist groups like the Islamic State (IS) have given a bad name to the followers of Islam.

He said Islam was a very "tolerant religion" and people need to work together to remove the distorted image of Islam from the world.