Peter Heinlen
VOA News / November 29, 2017
WHITE HOUSE — President Donald Trump has re-tweeted three inflammatory anti-Muslim videos that had been posted on Twitter by a far-right British politician, triggering condemnation, repudiation and fears of a backlash against Muslim Americans.
It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity or origin of the videos, which first appeared on the Twitter account of Jayda Fransen, deputy head of the anti-immigrant Britain First party.
The re-tweets appeared on Trump’s Twitter feed Wednesday morning amid a flurry of presidential posts on a variety of subjects from North Korea, the economy and the firing of a prominent journalist fired for sexual misconduct.
Intent
Asked by a reporter whether it mattered whether the videos were fake, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump’s intent was to raise the issue of security concerns.
“The threat is real and that’s what the president is talking about is the need for national security, the need for military spending, and those are very real things; there’s nothing fake about that,” she said. “It’s important to talk about … national security threats.”
One video carried a description that read: “VIDEO: Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!” Another read: “VIDEO: Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary!” A third said: “VIDEO: Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!” The third video has since been debunked by Dutch news outlets which reported the attacker is neither Muslim nor a migrant.
Fransen, who has more than 60,000 Twitter followers, responded to the presidential retweets with a thank you message noting that Trump had 44 million followers, dramatically increasing the reach of the videos. “God bless you Trump! God bless America,” she tweeted.
Trump’s decision to publicize the videos sparked condemnation on both sides of the Atlantic, and among both his supporters and adversaries.
British Prime Minister Theresa May chastised Trump, saying he had been “wrong” to spread “hateful narratives” that “peddles lies and stokes tensions.” In a statement read by a spokesperson, May called the Britain First party “the antithesis of the values of our country.”
On Washington’s Capitol Hill, senators on both sides of the partisan divide said Trump’s decision to retweet the videos was ill-advised. “Wrong. Inappropriate. A new low,” was the terse reply from Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ).
Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, said Trump should “think carefully about the impact of that kind of retweeting.”
The senator agreed that retweeting inflammatory material could pose a danger to Muslims in the United States. “There’s substantial potential for that, and that’s of concern. When the president uses Twitter to talk about foreign policy or security, the issues are so complicated and so sensitive that you can’t, in a tweet, appropriately convey American policy,” he said.
‘Incitement to violence’
Muslim organizations in the U.S. expressed similar concerns. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned what it called Trump’s “incitement to violence against American Muslims.”
In a statement sent to VOA, the Muslim advocacy group’s national executive director Nihad Awad called on all American political and religious leaders to condemn the president’s actions.
“By his unconscionable and irresponsible actions this morning, President Trump is clearly telling members of his base that they should hate Islam and Muslims,” the statement said.
The president’s re-tweets coincided with a new poll showing that Americans have increasingly favorable opinions of Arabs and Muslims. The poll was done by the Arab American Institute in the wake of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia rally that led to the death of a counter protestor.
In a news release, the institute’s director James Zogby said the data points to a strong partisan divide on the issue, with most of the increase in positive attitudes toward Arabs and Muslims coming from Democrats and independents.
During his campaign for the presidency, Trump regularly called for a “Muslim ban.”
Travel ban
Among his first moves as president was to issue executive orders that would have blocked entry to the United States from citizens of a handful of Muslim-majority countries. The courts blocked those orders, though subsequent decisions have allowed severe restrictions on migrants from some countries with lax immigration controls.
Fransen, who lives in a London suburb, has had several confrontations with British authorities on the issue of hate speech. She was charged earlier this month with using “threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior” during speeches she made in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was previously convicted in 2016 of abusing a woman wearing traditional Muslim dress.
Her party, Britain First, was founded in 2011 by former members of the far-right British National Party. The party has run candidates in parliamentary and European elections and bi-elections, but without success. In the recent election for mayor of London, the party received 1.2 percent of the vote.
Michael Bowman on Capitol Hill contributed to this report.
CREATIVE GENOCIDES.
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(“Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria”).
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BY:
MAZAHRI
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*DONALD-TRUMP
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*With an average “IQ”
of less than 85,
the two “Daddy’s Boys ”
could have never made it that good to
win any presidential elections- absolutely not.
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Normally; for daily survival, the two
“lazy good old boys” would have had to dig it real hard trying to compete and secure a shelter near some tall corners- in and around narrow, long and dark alleys; somewhere accessible under the deafening noise of rushing automobiles and blinding reflections; just like numerous other destitute souls who have had been miserably struggling deep in the midsts and surroundings of the high rises of NYC.
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The Big “Question”
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WELL,
THEN HOW COME THE TWO CLOWNS WERE DESTINED TO GET ELEVATED TO SUCH INTENTIONALLY CRITICAL POLITICAL POSITION.
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>Bush- losing, (technically),
to AlGore (2000)
and……….
>Trump- losing, (numerically),
to Hillary (2016)
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Both of the above weirdos were unethically maneuvered into running for the US highest office by the military megalomaniacs, as they began to get fixated and then dramatically installed under the clamor of devious platforms and wild uproars.
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And then, once again, suddenly all hell erupts open under the ultimate dirty schemes of the highly-decorated generals- the military psychopaths who have had been
“directly or indirectly” but actively involved and
implicated in tacit approvals; schemings; coordinations and perpetuations of :
•bloody quagmires;
•human traffickings;
•secret drug dealings;
•stealing of national resources;
•sales of extremely profitable and lethal weaponry across the world;
•installations of dictators;
and various other forms of heinous crimes against the regular innocent local folks.
The savageries are still practiced at their peak. level- especially now after so many decades- all across the conflict-imposed
“Greater Middle East” and all other parts of Islamic countries.
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Late Senator
“Ted Kennedy”
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was vehemently warning the regular honorable US folks to take their country back from the perpetrating modern savages and prosecute their belligerent war criminals and warmongering strategic partners who are staying behind the safety of their own woven cocoons; but yet actively maneuvering genocidal military orders and crimes against defenseless men, women and children in Islamic countries.
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Please check !
Mr Kennedy’s last appearance and honorable ardent speech at the Democratic Convention in Denver – just a few months before Obama elected as the President.
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IRONICALLY,
Obama, after the election, “slavishly” made himself also completely available to serve the highly-decorated US military warlords- all in an exchange for retaining the ceremonial position as the first African American president.
That is how the secretaries of defense and foreign affairs during Bush administration kept retaining their sensitive positions under Obama administration as well- just to keep up with the original secret militarily-conceived road maps- a seamless unilateral secret and open war efforts for an urgent subjugation of Islamic countries.
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Obviously, the US military strategists and their parasitic sponsoring elements know very well that all of the above types of flaky characters must exhibit absolute malleable and subservient behavior- that is why they are so prone to bizarre commands and are exhibited as frontline dummies across the world- all for the sole purpose of bolstering global
imperial evil orders.
In its general scheme, at various levels of conspiracies,
the plotting thugs and thug-mars
are conditioned symbiotically to cater and pay special homage to the grotesque and sadistic whims and parasitic greeds of their ruling
“Mega-Cooperations”
and
“the Super-Rich”
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VOICE YOUR
HONORABLE
“CONCERNS” !
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THE DESTRUCTIVE DESIGNS
OF
(MENTALLY UNSTABLE)
“PSYCHOPATHS”.
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*Beware!
The savageries may get extended through- by many more decades-
IF NOT ADDRESSED PROPERLY
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*AFTER ALL
YOUR DESTINY IS
“AT STAKE”
AS WELL
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