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Article snippet: Early Wednesday morning, President Trump set off international outrage when he shared a series of videos depicting Muslims in a negative light. The videos, taken in three countries at three different times, all have one thing in common: They all purport to show violence carried out by Muslims and offer no clear explanation of what is happening in front of the camera. But a closer look at the clips, first tweeted out by Jayda Fransen of the fringe nationalist group Britain First and then retweeted by Mr. Trump, reveals more, including that one video misrepresents the facts of what the viewer is seeing, while the other two lack context about what is happening. Here is a breakdown of what we know about the videos. The first video was of a teenager attacking another boy, and was presented in the tweet as footage of a “Muslim migrant” attacking a Dutch boy. But according to local officials, both boys are Dutch, and neither is a migrant. The clip was taken in May in Monnickendam, a small town in the North Holland province of the Netherlands. It shows a teenager punching and kicking a boy holding a crutch. The public prosecutor’s office in the province said the aggressor was a 16-year-old who was “born and raised in the Netherlands.” He was arrested after the video came to light, officials said. The video gives no indication of the background of either teenager. Both are speaking Dutch in the clip. Marleen van Fessem, a press officer for the public prosecutor, said in a... Link to the full article to read more