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May 30, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
.@realdonaldtrump's nat sec adviser John Bolton has appointd Fred Fleitz, (frmrly of Frank Gaffney's Center fr Security Policy, which propagates the conspiracy theory that Muslims r involved in a sinister plot 2 take over America), 2 be Nat'l Security Council Chief of Staff (1/3)
Fleitz is a proponent of the European "no-go zones" myth. Blamed a terrorist attack in London last yr on Muslims' "failure to assimilate," & "deliberately not assimilating," instead practicing "a parallel system of sharia law courts in the U.K." -Breitbart (2/3)
Nov 29, 2017 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I suppose there's a lot (or not a lot?) to say about @realDonaldTrump's early morning re-tweetstorm of a far-right British politician's anti-Muslim propaganda. But just to provide a little more context on one video (because there was none): 1/3
The video is four years old. It's from Alexandria, Egypt in 2013, shortly after the military overthrew the country's first elected president (an Islamist, Mohamed Morsi) in a coup, and protest and violence had broken out in multiple cities across the country (2/3)