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How a Series of Fringe Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theories Went Mainstream — Via Donald Trump
posted on November 7, 2016The Washington Post’s Abigail Hauslohner reports that Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric originated from far-right conservative activists such as Rev. Terry Jones and Frank Gaffney Jr. In 2011, Jones told a Detroit Radio station that the United States should monitor mosques and ban Muslims from entering the country. Years before Donald Trump announced his candidacy, Frank Gaffney Jr., a former aide in the Reagan administration, similarly “argued that the country was at risk of falling victim to ‘civilization jihad’ at the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood.”