Trump picks anti-Islamist as Security Adviser

Republican President-elect Donald Trump has sent fear down the spines of Muslim migrants in America by appointing Michael Flynn, who once used the phrase “Islamic ideology sick” on social media, as his national security adviser.

The controversial ex-army general who once said that “fear of Muslims is rational” and used the phrase “Islamic ideology sick”, in an interview with Al Jazeera first published in July, Flynn, 57, defended his remarks on social media, saying leaders in the Muslim-majority countries need to do more and “stand up”.

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“Islam is a political ideology based on religion,” Flynn told Mehdi Hasan , host of Al Jazeera’s Upfront, in an interview during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

After an attack in Nice, France, Flynn wrote on Twitter: “I dare Arab & Persian world ‘leaders’ to step up to the plate and declare their Islamic ideology sick and must [be] healed.”

 

 

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