Not surprisingly, Donald Trump's increasingly strident calls to stop allowing Muslims into the U.S. and monitor or shut down mosques isn't very popular among Muslims, either in the U.S. or around the world. Trump may not care, given the very small Muslim population in the U.S., but there is at least one group of Muslims Trump has been courting for years — Gulf Arab businessmen — and they aren't pleased with his anti-Muslim rhetoric, either, The Associated Press reports.
Trump has done business in the Gulf Arab emirates for years, especially Dubai, including licensing his name for golf courses and starting development on luxury hotels and other real estate projects, and he has pushed to expand his hotel business in the region to 30 hotels by 2020. Now, Trump's brand is suffering. Dubai's Landmark Group is pulling all Trump home decor items from its 180 Lifestyle stores because, it said, it "values and respects the sentiments of its customer."
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