Trump's Copying ISIS, Says London Mayor

Source: Newsweek Magazine




TRUMP'S 'DIVISIVE' RHETORIC COMPARED TO ISIS PROPAGANDA BY LONDON MAYOR SADIQ KHAN

BY TOM PORTER ON 1/21/18 AT 9:12 AM

London mayor Sadiq Khan has compared the anti-Muslim rhetoric used by President Donald Trump to the divisive rhetoric of militant group Islamic State (ISIS.)

Khan, who has clashed previously with the U.S. president, told The Intercept that the language used by Trump was “very similar to the rhetoric used by so-called Isis/Daesh.”

The first Muslim mayor of a major western capital, Khan said that ISIS wanted to provoke Islamophobic attacks in a bid to divide communities. They want a backlash against proud Muslims, proud westerners,” he said. “We are in danger of amplifying the narrative that Daesh/so-called ISIS have about a ‘clash of civilizations,’ ‘the West hates us,’ by some of the language that Donald Trump has used," Khan said.

"He is, if you like, repeating what so-called ISIS/Daesh are saying: ‘The West and Islam are irreconcilable.’ ‘You can’t be a proud American and a proud Muslim.’”



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