Never Mind Trump, What About Obama’s Dangerous Mindset?
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Finian Cunningham
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US President Barack Obama led the chorus this week denouncing Republican White House contender Donald Trump for having a “dangerous mindset” in regard to his implicating Islam in the Florida mass murder.
To identify the Republican demagogue as being unhinged is a fairly easy task. But what about the even more dangerous mindset of President Obama and other sections of the Washington establishment, who, ironically, posture as more reasonable, saner voices?
A visitor plants an American flag at a vigil for the shooting victims of Orlando's Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States June 13, 2016
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Following the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida – the biggest such killing in modern US history – in which a gunman shot dead 49 people at a gay nightclub, Trump was quick to claim that the atrocity vindicated his earlier controversial proposals to ban all Muslims entering the country.
The shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, who was killed by police officers at the scene, was of Afghan heritage and a professed Muslim. He also made a bizarre emergency phone call to police during the horrific nightclub siege in which he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (Daesh) terror group.
However, Trump’s comments do indeed seem wildly inflammatory and inaccurate. Mateen was born in New York City and was an American citizen. So Trump’s claim that his ban on Muslim immigrants entering the US would have prevented the massacre is not only utterly irrelevant. He once again cynically scapegoats and incites hatred of an entire religion.
Not surprisingly, Obama has been joined by large sections of the US media, as well as by even senior members of his rival Republican Party, and of course Democrat presidential contender Hillary Clinton, in condemning Trump for his inflammatory, bigoted rhetoric.
“Top Republicans join Obama in rebuking Trump,” read one headline in the Washington Post.
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