Vehicle hits pedestrians in London's Finsbury Park

We have to ask the question:

Is our corpulent, overweight Orange President's tweeting actually encouraging this type of rightwing terrorism?

London Mosque attack: Did Trump’s Tweets embolden Bigots?

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Donald J. Trump is one of the chief dupes of ISIL strategy, and his election as president last November gave him a very loud megaphone with which to broadcast hate and polarization. He is aided in this by the worst person in the world, alt-Neo-Nazi Steve Bannon, the chief White House strategist, who is working toward Catholic-Muslim polarization of a sort some fear could lead to blood in the streets.

During his campaign, Trump whipped up irrational hatred of Muslims, which some call Islamophobia. He said “I think Islam hates us.” He announced that he wanted to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

After the London Bridge attack at the beginning of June, Trump tweeted that it vindicated his Muslim ban. It did no such thing, since you can’t blame all the Muslims in 6 countries for crimes committed by one or two people from that country. Besides, many acts of terrorism are committed by citizens, as was true of the one today.

Then Trump accused London mayor Sadiq Khan of playing down the seriousness of the attacks, as a person of Muslim heritage. The mayor in fact had simply said that there would be extra police on the streets of London and that the public should not be alarmed by their presence. Trump twisted his words to imply he wasn’t taking the attack seriously.

Trump has admirers in the fringe British Islamophobic groups, including in UKIP, and his demonization of all Muslims for the acts of a few has emboldened militant bigots on both sides of the Atlantic.

Trump and Bannon are not savvy, strong Western politicians bravely standing up to the threat of “radical Islamic terrorism.” They are behaving precisely as the radicals want. They are dupes.

And they are making other people dupes.

This polarization strategy, and the people that fall for it, leads to catastrophe, as we saw with ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
Don’t go down that path.

full article at
https://www.juancole.com/2017/06/london-mosque-embolden.html
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Cypress said:
We have to ask the question:

Is our corpulent, overweight Orange President's tweeting actually encouraging this type of rightwing terrorism?
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I also could be the muslims themselves inviting retribution by their actions.

Look for more of this in the future. Better organized and funded.
 
Darth Omar said:
Should London be preparing for an anti-infidel backlash after this attack?
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Don't try to impose American racism where it doesn't figure much. Nice little letter in the 'I' today - the writer was watching, as I recollect, mothers waiting for kids. Along comes a young woman in an exiguous top and very short shorts, while from the other direction comes one in full Islamic rig. Fireworks are awaited, but they fall into one another's arms with cries of delighted recognition! Yes, we have nasties influenced by Hitler and American Republicans, but they are just a smelly little minority. like pimps and drug-peddlars.
 
iolo said:
Don't try to impose American racism where it doesn't figure much. Nice little letter in the 'I' today - the writer was watching, as I recollect, mothers waiting for kids. Along comes a young woman in an exiguous top and very short shorts, while from the other direction comes one in full Islamic rig. Fireworks are awaited, but they fall into one another's arms with cries of delighted recognition! Yes, we have nasties influenced by Hitler and American Republicans, but they are just a smelly little minority. like pimps and drug-peddlars.
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Of course Salifism and the Deobandis have nothing to do with it. What do you know anyway you live in a hideously white enclave in a remote corner of the UK?

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Milagro said:
Of course Salifism and the Deobandis have nothing to do with it. What do you know anyway you live in a hideously white enclave in a remote corner of the UK?

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Ay, never met any Muslims except those I drink with, poor benighted bugger! If you'd get all these stinking English profiteer's paws out of our pockets we'd be able to meet some decent people, doubtless, here on our reservation. How lucky I am that the racist rules kept me from spending most of my life elsewhere, as I imagine I did!
 
iolo said:
Ay, never met any Muslims except those I drink with, poor benighted bugger! If you'd get all these stinking English profiteer's paws out of our pockets we'd be able to meet some decent people, doubtless, here on our reservation. How lucky I am that the racist rules kept me from spending most of my life elsewhere, as I imagine I did!
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If the Welsh were anywhere near as good at entrepreneurship and starting successful companies as they are at whinging, they'd be world beaters. I have shares in a Welsh company called Haydale based in Ammanford in Carmarthenshire. They are a world class company specialising in graphene and should be applauded but I doubt that very few in Wales have ever heard of it.

http://www.haydale.com/about-us

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