It may be a law of nature: President Trump tweets something about Islam. Anti-Muslim hate crimes follow….“Whether it’s a tweet or whether it’s in a policy (Trump is) introducing, or if it’s in a policy someone in his administration is introducing, I think it all comes together to create this kind of environment where targeting Muslims is acceptable or has become acceptable,” said Madihha Ahussain, special counsel for anti-Muslim bigotry at Muslim Advocates.”
The article below does not specify what specifically Trump has tweeted that is deemed to be “anti-Muslim” (aka “Islamophobic”).
A couple years ago, Muslim Advocates received $1.8 million in grant money from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. Muslim Advocates was founded in 2005 “as an offshoot of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers. It often criticizes U.S. counterterrorism strategies that use sting operations and informants as discriminatory.”
It has become routine in Western societies: all too many people assume that Muslims can import any practice into Western culture, no matter how barbaric, and wage jihad against Westerners (both violent and stealth), but that no one should address this or formulate policies to curb it. To do so renders one “Islamophobic” or charged with fomenting violence against Muslims.
The worst possible thing that could happen to those who are trying to bring about the conquest of the House of War would be for infidel citizens to wake up, get educated about the jihad threat, and start resisting it. This is why Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamic lobbies and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation aggressively push back to curtail all truth-telling related to Islam and jihad activity.
Also accused along with Trump are “Facebook posts by right-wing political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) and how it may be associated with anti-refugee crime in Germany.”
In order to avoid being labeled “Islamophobic” and branded as fomenting violence against Muslims, everyone, including Trump, is expected to abandon concerns about national security and shut their mouths about jihad attacks, the spike in Islamic anti-Semitism, widespread sex attacks on infidel women, the rise of violent no-go zones, FGM, etc.
“Researchers find link between Trump tweets and spike in anti-Muslim hate,” by Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service, July 17, 2018:
It may be a law of nature: President Trump tweets something about Islam. Anti-Muslim hate crimes follow.
That’s according to a working paper by University of Warwick researchers Karsten Müller and Carlo Schwarz.
Their conclusions correspond with anecdotal reports collected by Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups, too.
“Whether it’s a tweet or whether it’s in a policy (Trump is) introducing, or if it’s in a policy someone in his administration is introducing, I think it all comes together to create this kind of environment where targeting Muslims is acceptable or has become acceptable,” said Madihha Ahussain, special counsel for anti-Muslim bigotry at Muslim Advocates.
Müller and Schwarz examined publicly accessible data such as the weekly number of anti-Muslim hate crimes recorded by the FBI in their paper, “Making America Hate Again? Twitter and Hate Crime Under Trump.”
The data showed a rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes since the start of Trump’s presidential campaign, concentrated in counties with high Twitter usage. It also showed a correlation between the number of Trump’s tweets in a given week that used keywords related to Islam and the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes that followed.
The researchers were curious whether what happens online motivates action offline. While people seemed to agree hateful rhetoric on social media was dangerous, Schwarz said, they were “surprised nobody had ever looked at it.”
But, Schwarz added, Trump shouldn’t get all the blame.
“Our idea is not basically that it’s just Donald Trump’s individual tweets that are causing this entire effect,” he said. “His tweets are widely shared, the news are discussing it and a lot of people are just exposed to this kind of rhetoric. This is just spreading through social media and in particular Twitter.”
Social media’s ability to deluge users with negative sentiments may push people “who were already on the edge” to commit hate crimes, according to the researcher.
And it’s happening beyond the United States.
Müller and Schwarz, who are German, previously wrote a study looking at Facebook posts by right-wing political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) and how it may be associated with anti-refugee crime in Germany…..