{"id":24654,"date":"2017-11-30T19:58:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T19:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/trump-tweets-anti-muslim-videos-world-calls-him-out\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T19:58:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T19:58:55","slug":"trump-tweets-anti-muslim-videos-world-calls-him-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/trump-tweets-anti-muslim-videos-world-calls-him-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Tweets Anti-Muslim Videos, World Calls Him Out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trump Tweets Anti-Muslim Videos, World Calls Him Out<\/h3>\n

\n By catherine lizette gonzalez<\/span> Nov 30, 2017<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Yesterday (November 29), President Donald Trump incited racism on Twitter<\/a> once again when he shared<\/a> three anti-Muslim videos from Britain First, a far-right racist fringe group that believes White Christians are under threat from Muslims, according to The New York Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The videos purport to show Muslims committing violent acts, but one of the videos falsely depicts reality<\/a>\u2014officials confirmed<\/a> that \"Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches<\/a>\" is an altercation between two Dutch boys\u2014and the other two provide zero context.<\/p>\n

Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First who posted the videos, thanked<\/a> the president for bringing attention to her organization’s racist platform<\/a>. \"As the leader of the Free World, you took the time out to retweet three of my videos on Twitter today,\" Fransen said in a video posted on her Twitter feed. \"You’ve shed light on my plight here in Britain, in that I am facing prison for giving a speech in which I criticize Islam.\"<\/p>\n

Last year, Fransen was found guilty<\/a> of a hate crime for yelling abusive remarks at a woman wearing hijab. And The Washington Post<\/a> reports that she also faces charges of \"religious harassment\" for igniting a social media campaign against Muslim men who were convicted in a rape case.<\/p>\n

The White House defended the president and downplayed the anti-Muslim content and spread of false information yesterday. \"I think his goal is to promote strong borders and strong national security,\" White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But many advocates and congressional leaders decried the president’s tweets, which were celebrated<\/a> by former KKK leader David Duke. Rep. Keith Ellison<\/a> (D-Minn.), who is a Muslim member of Congress and the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee<\/a>, condemned Trump’s actions in a statement to The Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The president is racist. There’s no doubt about that in my mind.<\/p>\n

This is Trump. He is a politician who is cynically trying to divide people along racial and religious lines. <\/p>\n

Somehow people who call him out on his racism have to worry about defending themselves against [people saying], ‘How dare you call the president a racist?’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On Twitter, people of color pointed out how Trump’s tweets embolden bigotry in the U.S. Many cited the anti-Muslim policies Trump has already set in place<\/a>, and the high number of hate crimes<\/a> committed against Muslim communities this year: <\/p>\n

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.@realDonaldTrump<\/a> Have you no sense of decency, Sir?
Do you know how many anti-Muslims incidents in the US we recorded at #CAIR<\/a> this year alone? 3,296.
And we haven’t heard a peep from you. Some president. https:\/\/t.co\/snB3Fyjdkb<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Nihad Awad \u0646\u0647\u0627\u062f \u0639\u0648\u0636 (@NihadAwad) November 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n