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Commentary: Trump’s entire political career has been built on Islamophobia

Related Topics: Islamophobia

You know things are bad in your country when the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan praises the U.S. president for retweeting misleading videos about Muslims, peddled by a right-wing hate group from England whose leader was convicted of a hate crime last year.

President Donald Trump’s latest Twitter controversy revolved around him sharing three murky videos purporting to show violent acts by Muslims. The original tweets were sent out by a leader of the right-wing Britain First party: felon Jayda Fransen, 31, who was convicted last year of “religiously aggravated harassment” for verbal abuse of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab in front of her children.