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How Trump's retweets about Muslims could thwart his travel ban - ABC News

posted onDecember 1, 2017
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Article snippet: British Prime Minister Donald Trump may not be the only fallout from his recent tweeting spree. His retweeting this week of three videos purporting to show violent Muslims in the Netherlands could directly affect the outcome of his administration's proposed travel ban, two experts told ABC News today. The videos "do nothing to justify the case for the need for expanded restrictions for those traveling from the countries included in the ban," ABC News consultant John Cohen said. "The current proposed travel ban doesn't include people from the Netherlands, so it's unclear to me how this would support the argument for the administration's ban as proposed," Cohen, a former counterterrorism coordinator for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said. The videos were originally published and shared by a leader of Britain First, a far-right organization widely condemned as an extremist group that targets mosques and Muslims. In one of the videos, a man who is alleged to be Muslim is shown breaking a statue of the Virgin Mary. Another shows what it calls an "Islamist mob" pushing someone off a roof. The caption of another video reads: "Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!" The Netherlands Embassy in Washington, D.C., released a statement clarifying that no one in the video was a migrant, and the perpetrator was born in the Netherlands. The proposed travel ban has gone through a number of legal hurdles and multiple versions, but the most recen... Link to the full article to read more

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