Tuesday 15 August 2017

Letter to the I: Trump Letter

With regard to David Mazza's letter he is unfairly allowing Donald Trump to operate by double standards.  When terrorist attacks were perpetrated by Islamist extremists during the Obama Administration, he publicly called on Obama to resign unless he cited specifically "Radical Islamists" as responsible.  I agree with Mazza that extremist violence is unacceptable whichever source it comes from, but that is not the issue.  The issue is that Trump's earlier comments were a shameless attempt at identity politics to rally those who dislike anything remotely connected to Islam.  His recent comments were likely tactically shaped since many of his supporters have much in common with the terrorist in this attack.

Regards


Zachary Barker

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