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
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8 Responses to “Trump and Fox attack Islam again – this time over NYC’s ‘Ground Zero Mosque’”
treborc
They could drop you of course your such an air head you not make a mess
docmusic
WOW!! How sweet ! You’re in islam…WOW !!
You are a muslim…Fantastic. WOW !! You love islam !! You
have to love it . There is no way out !! You are trapped and finished. WOW!! You must be sooo smart.
Education has by-passed you obviously. Terrific !!
It is actually your frightened ancestors fault that you have
fallen into the slime of islam….it is an ancestral fail if your offspring
finds islam attractive and worth joining. It is a parenting blunder of epic
proportions as their genealogy and progeny will in the end come out in the far
run twisted and dirty thinking if islam is invited into the current gene pool
by you.
You’re done….keep your fingers crossed…..but
you can’t because that would be un-islamic….you’re getting the point . Go ask
that idiot that keeps you in islam what’s the arabic word for child molesters
and pedophiles……hear what he/she says……you now have no escape……There are
still no laws on the planet in place that protect muslims who want to revert to
being humans. Start your own i suggest… you are muslim. WOW !!
The lovely Misery that is islam can only be felt by
muslims….all their lives…..Now you feel this brotherhood of misery
too. What more could you ask for ? What more could you ask for….and if you’re
Vegan too …..you must be double loving it !! And you’ve done all this to
yourself by yourself. You’re sooo smart….quickly change your name to some
guttaral arabic name….You’re on.
It is your own bad karma
you’re muslim today. No hope for you. You’re done. No way out…..Stupidity makes
sense to muslims. You are muslim …stand proud and look stupid. The karmic
circle of life dictates that people who should be punished in this life for bad
deeds done in a previous life come into this life as muslims. Welcome to the
brotherhood of Misery. You cannot think rationally …you are muslim…..You cannot
have fun …you can only envy and hate as everyone around you has a good time
…you are muslim. You’re done. No way out for you. You are muslim…..you can only
look at humans …..with envy. There is no way out for you or your hair or your mind !! YOU ARE MUSLIM !!
docmusic
You do not still see
far…if we don’t stop this political and has-to-be pedophilic human-looking
ideology and its 2billion savages we will also have to become like them…..we
as in our children. muslims have no option but to behave like this. Every one
of these islamic nutcases has a polite gentle ancestry like us that was warped
and twisted by islamic wardens called sheiks and imans and other nutty sounding
titles. In case anyone forgets…. all the
poison is in the recipe book the holey-co-ran. Read this regularly to recharge
your hate for non-muslims and anything anything anything non-islamic. It is
Written in Arabic. But at last we are translating and understanding…..but we
are still to bang it on the UN table. Who will thump the co-ran in disgust? The
islam file is fattening.
We , our children’s
children will have to be muslims. In islam there is no such thing as a
non-muslim…it is un-thinkable . The islam-Goal is Planet domination….we
have to have to have to understand this deadly claw. There is no way out of
islam. We will have to be muslims…..but if islam was smashed we wouldn’t have
to worry. Think a bit now….got any ideas that might save our kids ? islam
the cult is still being classed as a religion. That’s the hiccup. Once we
re-classify islam as a cult we’re on. Till then its hahalllaaaahhh time.
Islam
is wasting our precious time by making us think like this.
Why
is islam around ??…someone please tell me.