Monday, May 30, 2016 8:22:18 PM
Michael Hayden: Trump Is Helping ISIS
“He’s feeding their recruitment video.”
05/30/2016 10:55 am ET
Larry Downing / Reuters
Former NSA/CIA Director Michael Hayden pauses while he speaks during a Reuters CyberSecurity Summit in Washington May 12, 2014. Hayden told the Guardian in an interview published Sunday that Donald Trump’s rhetoric on Muslims is helping ISIS.
(with imbeded links)
Donald Trump may have vowed to “bomb the shit” out of the Islamic State, but his anti-Muslim rhetoric may actually be helping the terror group, according to one of the United States’ top foreign policy experts.
Michael Hayden, the former head of both the CIA and the NSA, explained in an interview with the Guardian that “the jihadist narrative is that there is undying enmity between Islam and the modern world.”
“When Trump says they all hate us, he’s using their narrative,” Hayden said. “He’s feeding their recruitment video.”
Trump has proposed banning all Muslims, a religion of 1.6 billion people, from entering the U.S.
“Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life,” he said in December, days after 14 people were shot and killed by terrorists in San Bernardino, California. The shooters, Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik, were Muslim.
In the months after the San Bernardino shooting, as well as November’s deadly terror attacks in Paris, Muslims across the U.S. have seen an increase in violence and harassment. Last month, one Trump supporter in D.C. allegedly called a woman wearing a hijab a terrorist and a “worthless piece of Muslim trash.” A group of men in Kansas reportedly beat up a Muslim student while shouting Trump’s name.
Trump has dismissed concerns that his xenophobic rhetoric is hateful. The former reality TV star, who has also made racist statements about Mexican immigrants, said that two of his fans who beat up a Hispanic man were simply “passionate.”
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly
incites political violence http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-violence_us_56e1f16fe4b0b25c91815913
and is a serial liar, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-911_us_565b1950e4b08e945feb7326
rampant xenophobe, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/9-outrageous-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-latinos_us_55e483a1e4b0c818f618904b
racist, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racist-examples_us_56d47177e4b03260bf777e83
misogynist http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/18-real-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-women_us_55d356a8e4b07addcb442023
and birther http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-birther_us_56022a33e4b00310edf92f7a
who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-hayden-donald-trump-isis_us_574c46f1e4b0dacf7ad53d08?utm_hp_ref=politics
“He’s feeding their recruitment video.”
05/30/2016 10:55 am ET
Larry Downing / Reuters
Former NSA/CIA Director Michael Hayden pauses while he speaks during a Reuters CyberSecurity Summit in Washington May 12, 2014. Hayden told the Guardian in an interview published Sunday that Donald Trump’s rhetoric on Muslims is helping ISIS.
(with imbeded links)
Donald Trump may have vowed to “bomb the shit” out of the Islamic State, but his anti-Muslim rhetoric may actually be helping the terror group, according to one of the United States’ top foreign policy experts.
Michael Hayden, the former head of both the CIA and the NSA, explained in an interview with the Guardian that “the jihadist narrative is that there is undying enmity between Islam and the modern world.”
“When Trump says they all hate us, he’s using their narrative,” Hayden said. “He’s feeding their recruitment video.”
Trump has proposed banning all Muslims, a religion of 1.6 billion people, from entering the U.S.
“Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life,” he said in December, days after 14 people were shot and killed by terrorists in San Bernardino, California. The shooters, Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik, were Muslim.
In the months after the San Bernardino shooting, as well as November’s deadly terror attacks in Paris, Muslims across the U.S. have seen an increase in violence and harassment. Last month, one Trump supporter in D.C. allegedly called a woman wearing a hijab a terrorist and a “worthless piece of Muslim trash.” A group of men in Kansas reportedly beat up a Muslim student while shouting Trump’s name.
Trump has dismissed concerns that his xenophobic rhetoric is hateful. The former reality TV star, who has also made racist statements about Mexican immigrants, said that two of his fans who beat up a Hispanic man were simply “passionate.”
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly
incites political violence http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-violence_us_56e1f16fe4b0b25c91815913
and is a serial liar, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-911_us_565b1950e4b08e945feb7326
rampant xenophobe, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/9-outrageous-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-latinos_us_55e483a1e4b0c818f618904b
racist, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racist-examples_us_56d47177e4b03260bf777e83
misogynist http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/18-real-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-women_us_55d356a8e4b07addcb442023
and birther http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-birther_us_56022a33e4b00310edf92f7a
who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-hayden-donald-trump-isis_us_574c46f1e4b0dacf7ad53d08?utm_hp_ref=politics
Join the InvestorsHub Community
Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
