Monday, February 29, 2016

Republicans spent years fostering a fear of Muslims. Now Trump is exploiting it.

Republicans spent years fostering a fear of Muslims. Now Trump is exploiting it.
by Sarah Posner

By the time Trump launched his campaign in 2015, the Cassandras of a Muslim invasion of America on talk radio, Fox News, and elsewhere had laid his groundwork. Trump sought to exploit the simmering Islamophobia in a series of attention-grabbing moves. In April 2011, during a period when Trump was sending his own investigators to Hawaiito find Obama's birth certificate, he told the Christian Broadcasting Network that the Koran "teaches some very negative vibe."

It would take four more years, during which Islamophobia was on the rise, for Trump to make full political hay of his twinned anti-Obama and anti-Muslim strategy.

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