The Muslim Tweet: Daughter of Trump

Donald Trump has arrived in Saudi Arabia, the first stop on his first foreign tour as president, and Twitter is atweet. But as @r_2iiiii has observed, with lots of thumbs down and tears,

Indeed, Ivanka has taken the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by storm, and #Bint_Trump (Trump’s daughter) is trending big. Number One hashtag in the world for a while. Some of those tweeting are merely in love:

A second group is making fun of the first group:

I confess I had some trouble with the translation on this next one. Something about traveling fifty cubits into your valley. It might be obscene.

Others speculate about what the president is saying to his daughter:

Whenever something fun is going on, there are always those who disapprove. Some of these are predictably apocalyptic:

Others are concerned that it plays into the hands of those who promulgate negative stereotypes about Arab men:

Finally, we seem to have the Middle Eastern equivalent of Batman slapping Robin:

Of course, Arabs are tweeting about aspects of Trump's visit other than Ivanka. The BBC collected some of the tweets in an article titled 'Trump, servant of God': How Saudis are viewing his visit.

Michael Isenberg writes about the Muslim world, medieval and modern. His forthcoming novel, The Thread of Reason, is a murder mystery that takes place in Baghdad in the year 1092 and depicts the battle for the Muslim soul between those who embrace science and tolerance on the one hand, and those who throw in their lot with mysticism and persecution on the other.