Donald Trump has once again proven his ignorance and reactionary xenophobia by beating the anti-Islamic drum.
Fox News has re-launched one of its many anger-fuelled campaigns, this one being their outrage at the existence of the Park51 Muslim Community Center in Manhattan.
Fox broadcast a ‘discussion piece’ on what the centre is used for, culminating in a call from Donald Trump, who proceeded to make some outrageous claims, as Think Progress reports:
“No, I don’t think so; I’d certainly buy the site. But I don’t think it’s an appropriate use of the site. A lot of people don’t. You know, in the Arab world, when they have victory, they like to build a Mosque at that site. It’s very strongly out there. I think this is a terrible idea. It shouldn’t be done and let’s see what happens…”
Not only is this a bizarre and offensive claim for the tycoon to be making, but it also a staple of Islamophobic rhetoric, and went unchallenged by Fox, as the video below shows:
Trump has, of course, courted controversy in the past with his views on Islam.
For example, in a recent interview he fear-mongered about the “very negative vibe” taught in the Qur’an.
While on Letterman, he associated violence and aggression with Islam, and when asked about the link between Islam and extremism responded with:
“Well, somebody knocked down the World Trade Centre …Somebody’s blowing us up. Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff.”
And when asked whether he agreed there is a ‘Muslim problem’ by O’Reilly, Trump said:
“Absolutely yes, in fact I went a step further; I said I didn’t see Swedish people knocking down the World Trade Centre…”
Trump is well known for his vitriolic and uncompromising opinions, often delivered from his twitter account. Trump recently came under scrutiny for his foaming-at-the-mouth reaction to Obama’s re-election. Just this weekend as well, Trump has again been on howling-at-the-moon form, bombarding Lord Sugar with abuse on Twitter, mostly revolving around Trump’s infantile obsession with personal wealth and worth.
This came after Trump’s relentless and obsessive pursuit of Obama’s birth certificate and heritage, which constitutes nothing but the actions of an unhinged man, barely cloaking his blatant racism.
Trump has once again proved himself to fundamentally be a racist and borderline conspiracy theorist, this time turning his rage toward Islam.
See also:
• Election 2012′s funniest moment? Trump’s Twitter meltdown – 7th November, 2012
• Review: “2016: Obama’s America” – ever more conspiracy theories dressed up as documentary – 9th September, 2012
• Watch: Obama mocks Trump over ‘Birther’ conspiracy campaign – 3rd February, 2012
8 Responses to “Trump and Fox attack Islam again – this time over NYC’s ‘Ground Zero Mosque’”
Old Albion
Do any of you at Left foot forward think it is suitable to build a mosque at or near to the site of the terrible murder of thousands of innocent people, by Islamic terrorists?
Dan Bridges
Or what about building a memorial to the Black and Tan regiment and putting it right outside Croke Park?
docmusic
So everyone’s heard about the guy who fell down from a
landing plane and died and the country he fell into only had to clean up a
little mess ?….. so it’s possible….direct deportation thru bottom opening
planes is a possibility. Return not poss. Anjem Choudhari and his ilk should be
deported like this….silent under-radar flights over their favorite muslim
country and in-flight opening airplane holds…..the allahhooooakkkhhhbbbaaarrr
will stop before the last 200 feet. It will be silent for the sleeping muslims below
and for us all over the globe. Who did it and all these questions will be left
to those who find these drops that should start happening frequently. The first
muslim holey man on the site will say it’s a miracle of Ha-Hallla and will
recommend special high volume high octane and highly stupid so-called prayers
for the dead meat and after that they’ll all casually and instinctively riot.
WE’re cool with that.
Silence is golden …our gold.
Hippies show us
flowers and muslims show us
our blood. What do you want to see?
docmusic
That is a mosque they
are building. Have no doubt about that. Wait till they ask for a minaret or
four..then they’ll put in the loudspeakers and then nu york will sound like
saudi arabia and nu-yorkers will have to stand still and then no eating in the
day time in ramadan and all that nonsense and then….War. Islam will lose. That
will be the real nu-york minute.
nara
im an arab muslim woman and no we dont build mosques when there is victory or whatever he said.it just a terrible media that allows such people to insult and say false things about other religions ..im a devout muslim and i have studied in christian schools and have christian friends ..we respect and like each over though we are differnet..i do that because its what quran taught me.we are told to treat nonmuslims with “ber” which is utmost respect and fairness..i just dont know how igonrant these ppl would be ..they try to spread a hate message .i mean there are christians who hurt muslims but we never said christianity is bad and blamed all christians ,its not even allowed to say that in media in my country.its aronic how american media is so sensitive and careful about jews but they seem to compete who will attack islam more.