KABUL – Donald Trump flops over his baby walker and rolls it around hisfamily’s modest home in Kabul, blissfully unaware of the turmoil his’infidel’ name is causing in the deeply conservative Muslim country.

The rosy-cheeked toddler’s parents named him after the billionaire USpresident in the hope of replicating his success. But now he is at thecentre of a social media firestorm in Afghanistan after a photo of his IDpapers was posted on Facebook.

A fan of the tycoon turned world leader, Sayed Assadullah Pooya said he andhis wife have been inundated with “vulgar and insulting” comments attackingtheir choice of name for their third child.

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Some Facebook users have gone as far as threatening to kill Sayed forgiving his son an “infidel name,” while others have accused him ofendangering the boy’s life.

There are even suggestions Sayed is using the moniker to wangle asylum inthe United States — a charge the 28-year-old teacher vehemently denies.

“I didn’t know at the beginning that Afghan people would be so sensitiveabout a name,” Sayed said as Donald played with a music app on his father’sSamsung smartphone in a carpeted room.

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Sayed says someone posted the picture online, sparking the controversy thatforced him to close his Facebook account.

Even Sayed’s neighbors in the heavily Shia area of Kabul where they livehave threatened the family and told them to leave.

“When I go out of the house I feel intimidated,” he said.

Donald was born in the central province of Daikundi a few months before the2016 US presidential election, on the farm where Sayed’s parents andgrandparents grew almonds, wheat and corn.

Sayed was inspired to call his son Donald Trump after reading thePersian-language versions of the businessman’s books, including “How to GetRich,” which he borrowed from the library.

“I did a lot of research about him, and that motivated me to choose hisname for my son,” he explained.

He hopes his son will “be as successful,” adding that photos of the olderTrump already make his younger namesake ‘happy’.

For Sayed’s parents, bemusement turned to anger when they realized thecouple were serious about the name. As relations broke down, the youngfamily moved to Kabul, and they are now estranged from their relatives.

Their life could not be more different from the one enjoyed by their son’snamesake, who divides his time between the White House and his Mar-a-Lagoresort in Florida.

The family of five is squeezed into a spartan room overlooking a smallcourtyard and outdoor bathroom, which they rent for $30 a month.

Beyond their metal front gate is a warren of dirt lanes barely wide enoughfor a car, mud-brick houses and putrid open drains.

A few blocks from their house, several drug addicts loll on a grassy stripin the middle of a busy road, injecting themselves or sleeping off a hit.

During the interview, Sayed’s wife, Jamila, washed the family’s clothes ina small machine outside while keeping an eye on daughter Fatima, 9, andeldest son Karim, 8.

Despite the controversy, Donald’s parents have not broken the law by givingtheir son an un-Islamic name, according to Rohullah Ahmadzai, a senioradviser at the Population Registration Office in Kabul. He said they havethe legal right “to name their children whatever they want” — even afterAmerican presidents.

While Sayed is worried about his family’s safety, particularly Donald’s, heremains stubbornly unrepentant.

“It’s likely … that he will be harassed or beaten by his classmates,” hesaid matter-of-factly.

“I won’t reconsider (his name). To hell with the other people.” – APP /AFP