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FM123

(10,054 posts) Sat Mar 16, 2019, 09:19 AM Mar 2019

Trump again says there is no rise in white supremacy

Once again, President Donald Trump is having a tough time calling out far right-wing white nationalism.

His response to the carnage in New Zealand, where 49 people died in an attack on two mosques, is also raising fresh questions about his attitude toward Islam following a long history of anti-Muslim rhetoric -- and about the extent to which the President has a responsibility to moderate his language given the rise in white supremacy movements across the world.

On Twitter and in remarks in the Oval Office, Trump was clear in condemning the killings. But he did not deliver a message of empathy and support to American Muslims, who may feel scared as security is stepped up at US mosques.

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But asked whether he saw a worrying rise in white supremacy movements around the world, Trump said he did not, blaming a small group of people "with very, very serious problems." He also told reporters that he had not seen the manifesto linked to by a social media account that's believed to belong to one of the attackers, which mentioned Trump by name and saw him as a symbol of renewed white identity.

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Trump again says there is no rise in white supremacy (Original Post) FM123 Mar 2019 OP

when you are a white supremacist.... spanone Mar 2019 #1

And his little 'I don't know anything about the person yet" BULLSHIT is getting really old. We all UniteFightBack Mar 2019 #2

unless FUX Snooz tells him so, he don't know rurallib Mar 2019 #3

RW violence is increasing, Islamist terrorism is decreasing: dalton99a Mar 2019 #4

spanone

(135,854 posts)

1. when you are a white supremacist....

Reply to FM123 (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 09:20 AM

Mar 2019

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)

2. And his little 'I don't know anything about the person yet" BULLSHIT is getting really old. We all

Reply to FM123 (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 09:44 AM

Mar 2019

knew about the person when he made that foolish statement ...yet the fake president doesn't? It's so fucking obvious and blatant it is disgusting.

rurallib

(62,431 posts)

3. unless FUX Snooz tells him so, he don't know

Reply to FM123 (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 11:25 AM

Mar 2019

and FUX doesn't report on stuff like that.

dalton99a

(81,534 posts)

4. RW violence is increasing, Islamist terrorism is decreasing:

Reply to FM123 (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 11:35 AM

Mar 2019

According to [the U.S. Anti-Defamation League], right-wing extremists were responsible for 70 percent of the 427 extremist-related killings that occurred in the U.S. in the past 10 years. In 2018, every one of the perpetrators of the 37 extremist-related murders in the U.S. had ties to at least one far-right movement, although one had recently switched to supporting Islamist extremism, the ADL says.

Importantly, the number of incidents of violence perpetrated by the far right is on the rise. The Institute for Economics and Peace noted in its 2018 Global Terrorism Index report that the number of such killings increased from three in 2014 to 17 in 2017.

Meanwhile, Islamist-inspired terrorism appears to be on the wane, with the attempt to create a caliphate in the Middle East roundly defeated and the ideal of pure Islamic statehood losing its attractiveness to the assorted misfits among the West’s Muslim minorities. According to Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center’s Global Attack Index, fatalities linked to Islamic State declined by 51.5 percent in 2018.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-15/after-christchurch-far-right-terror-needs-urgent-scrutiny

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