Trump retweets anti-Muslim tweets, UK condemns him
The 45th president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has just layed out a gruesome and personal attack on Muslims. This comes only a day after he was accused of racially slurring Native Americans during a speech in honor of them. The controversy rose when he called Elizabeth Warren 'Pocahontas' in front of Natives.
The US president retweeted three videos posted by a member of a far-right British group on Twitter. The videos directly attacked Muslims and were aimed at degrading followers of the Islamic religion and generalize them as criminals.
One of the videos including a Muslim man slamming and shattering a statue of the Virgin Mary, a known figure of Christianity. Another showed an alleged teenage Muslim migrant beating up another teenager who was on crutches. The third video showed a 'mob' of Muslim men beating up a man and pushing him off of a building.
Three separate videos of horrible crimes and acts of hate by these radicals are definitely not to be confused as the description of Islamic followers and general Muslim Americans and citizens, including immigrants, living in Western countries. Although all of the videos were horrendous and disgusting, Trump's aim was evident.
He retweeted the videos in an attempt to degrade the religion and impose fear upon his voting base in an attempt for others to lose momentum in their effort to terminate all of Trump's travel bans, which have been directly aimed at trying to keep Muslims out.
Although the most recent versions of the travel ban do include newly added nations like Venezuela and North Korea of which were not targeted due to their majority Muslim populations, it's clear with the other 5 country bans that this was Trump's real aim. He used the Venezuela and North Korean additions to try and diminish the controversy that followed the first two failed attempts of a major travel ban.
However, in many different reports by analysts, the recent Trump act to degrade the Muslim population worldwide may just be the last straw. The United Kingdom's Prime Minister's office condemned Trump, saying it was wrong to retweet the tweets by the British anti-Muslim, Islamophobic, hard-right party group.
It'd be no surprise if further confirmations, other than more from the UK, are likely to come. For example, Canada and France of which are lead by very Liberal leaders are likely to speak out against Trump - something they've rarely done before. But this still is likely to be ignored and regarded as just another controversy surrounding Trump.
Meanwhile the White House joined the controversy, of course on the side of Donald Trump. White House press secretary Sarah H Sanders told the media that it "didn't matter if the videos he retweeted were real or not because the threat is real", in an attempt to defend Trump's words simply because ISIS is waging Islamophobia.
The controversy expanded with many analysts confirming that it seems the video of the 'Muslim migrant' beating up a victim was staged and was not how it was described, as well as the mob attack being disconnected with Islam.
It doesn't mean the videos are any more innocent, and nobody is denying the acts in the videos are disgusting. But it isn't the first time Trump retweets a controversial tweet and sparring worldwide attacks on his competence. He had retweeted a video of him hitting Hillary Clinton with a golf ball, another video of him beating up a man with the CNN logo edited on his face.
These were seen as acts of encouraging violence on Clinton and other political adversaries as well as encouraging violence on reporters and the news organizations, of which Trump has been waging war since the start of his campaign.
