President Donald Trump’s reaction to the mosque massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, showed that he is either unable or unwilling to properly sympathize with — and indeed, protect — Muslims across the globe and even in his own country.
Asked by New Zealand’s prime minister on Friday to show “love and sympathy for all Muslim communities, ” he instead continued to stoke fears and spread inflammatory tropes about immigrants, exactly the kind of hatred believed to be behind the Christchurch attack. Then over the weekend, he unleashed a wild tirade of tweets attacking different targets, though never white nationalism, and demanded that Judge Jeanine Pirro be allowed to return to Fox News after her Islamophobic comments the week before.
In a new Washington Post op-ed Monday, conservative writer Jennifer Rubin noted that, in this respect, Trump is actually guilty of the sin that Republicans so often accused President Barack Obama of:
View the complete March 18 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet website here.