WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump shared videos supposedly portraying Muslims committing acts of violence on Twitter on Wednesday morning, photographs which are likely to fuel anti-Islam sentiments standard a number of the president's political base in the USA. The White House did not straight away respond to questions about the videos.
Trump also took a shot at CNN and praised his management for a robust stock market in other Twitter posts on Wednesday morning. Trump retweeted the video posts from an ultra-nationalist British party leader, Jayda Fransen, who has prior to now been charged in the United Kingdom with "religious aggravated harassment," consistent with news reviews.
The videos were titled: "Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!" "Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary!" and "Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!" It is extraordinary to peer an American president push out this sort of content material on the sort of powerful social media platform.
But the videos are consistent with how Trump has approached Islam, particularly all over the marketing campaign, when he mentioned, "Islam hates us" all over the 2016 presidential marketing campaign and known as for a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims coming to the USA. It was unclear on Wednesday morning whether the perpetrators in the videos were Muslim, as Fransen recommended. Trump isn't among Fransen's Twitter followers.
But the president does practice a conservative commentator, Ann Coulter, who on Tuesday retweeted the video purporting to turn a Muslim migrant beating a Dutch boy. Fransen is the deputy of the far-right party Britain First, which was co-founded by way of a person who later supported Trump all over the 2016 presidential marketing campaign and was a part of the efforts to spread anti-Clinton news on social media. British politicians were quick to condemn Trump's tacit endorsement of the videos.
"Trump sharing Britain First. Let that sink in," David Lammy, a member of Parliament for the Labour Party, wrote on Twitter. "The President of the United States is promoting a fascist, racist, extremist hate group whose leaders have been arrested and convicted. He is no ally or friend of ours." Another Labour legislator, Chuka Umunna, mentioned Trump's invitation to consult with Britain "should be withdrawn."
British PM Theresa May's spokesman, James Slack, mentioned it was "wrong" for the president to have retweeted Britain First. He mentioned the group seeks to divide communities thru its use of "hateful narratives which peddle lies and stoke tensions." But May's place of business mentioned the state consult with would not be cancelled. This reaction is precisely what James R Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, mentioned he feared when he noticed the president's Twitter posts.
"It has all kinds of ripple effects, both in terms of perhaps inciting or encouraging anti-Muslim violence, and as well causes, I think, our friends and allies around the world to wonder about the judgment of the president of the United States," Clapper told CNN. Fransen is accused of the usage of "threatening, abusing or insulting words or behaviour" in speeches and leaflets at occasions this autumn in England.
Fransen thanked Trump for promoting her message in a Twitter put up. The authentic Twitter account of Britain First also wrote to its more than 24,000 followers on Wednesday morning about Trump's posts. Britain First is a farright nationalist staff that promotes anti-immigrant sentiments and uses hateful rhetoric about Islam, consistent with the British anti-racism watchdog Hope Not Hate.
British government have warned a few rising threat from violent far-right extremism, and just lately charged the leader of any other white supremacist staff with plotting to kill a lawmaker. In June 2016 Labour lawmaker Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to dying by way of Thomas Mair, who shouted "Britain first" as he attacked her.
The legislator's widower, Brendan Cox, tweeted Wednesday: "Spreading hatred has consequences & the President should be ashamed of himself." London Mayor Sadiq Khan also criticised the president. "Britain First is a vile, hate-fuelled organization whose views should be condemned, not amplified," Khan mentioned
Trump also took a shot at CNN and praised his management for a robust stock market in other Twitter posts on Wednesday morning. Trump retweeted the video posts from an ultra-nationalist British party leader, Jayda Fransen, who has prior to now been charged in the United Kingdom with "religious aggravated harassment," consistent with news reviews.
The videos were titled: "Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!" "Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary!" and "Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!" It is extraordinary to peer an American president push out this sort of content material on the sort of powerful social media platform.
But the videos are consistent with how Trump has approached Islam, particularly all over the marketing campaign, when he mentioned, "Islam hates us" all over the 2016 presidential marketing campaign and known as for a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims coming to the USA. It was unclear on Wednesday morning whether the perpetrators in the videos were Muslim, as Fransen recommended. Trump isn't among Fransen's Twitter followers.
But the president does practice a conservative commentator, Ann Coulter, who on Tuesday retweeted the video purporting to turn a Muslim migrant beating a Dutch boy. Fransen is the deputy of the far-right party Britain First, which was co-founded by way of a person who later supported Trump all over the 2016 presidential marketing campaign and was a part of the efforts to spread anti-Clinton news on social media. British politicians were quick to condemn Trump's tacit endorsement of the videos.
"Trump sharing Britain First. Let that sink in," David Lammy, a member of Parliament for the Labour Party, wrote on Twitter. "The President of the United States is promoting a fascist, racist, extremist hate group whose leaders have been arrested and convicted. He is no ally or friend of ours." Another Labour legislator, Chuka Umunna, mentioned Trump's invitation to consult with Britain "should be withdrawn."
British PM Theresa May's spokesman, James Slack, mentioned it was "wrong" for the president to have retweeted Britain First. He mentioned the group seeks to divide communities thru its use of "hateful narratives which peddle lies and stoke tensions." But May's place of business mentioned the state consult with would not be cancelled. This reaction is precisely what James R Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, mentioned he feared when he noticed the president's Twitter posts.
"It has all kinds of ripple effects, both in terms of perhaps inciting or encouraging anti-Muslim violence, and as well causes, I think, our friends and allies around the world to wonder about the judgment of the president of the United States," Clapper told CNN. Fransen is accused of the usage of "threatening, abusing or insulting words or behaviour" in speeches and leaflets at occasions this autumn in England.
Fransen thanked Trump for promoting her message in a Twitter put up. The authentic Twitter account of Britain First also wrote to its more than 24,000 followers on Wednesday morning about Trump's posts. Britain First is a farright nationalist staff that promotes anti-immigrant sentiments and uses hateful rhetoric about Islam, consistent with the British anti-racism watchdog Hope Not Hate.
British government have warned a few rising threat from violent far-right extremism, and just lately charged the leader of any other white supremacist staff with plotting to kill a lawmaker. In June 2016 Labour lawmaker Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to dying by way of Thomas Mair, who shouted "Britain first" as he attacked her.
The legislator's widower, Brendan Cox, tweeted Wednesday: "Spreading hatred has consequences & the President should be ashamed of himself." London Mayor Sadiq Khan also criticised the president. "Britain First is a vile, hate-fuelled organization whose views should be condemned, not amplified," Khan mentioned
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