Well it turns out the Muslim videos Trump retweeted this morning aren’t all what the deputy leader of Britain First claimed they were, specifically one of them.
In the case of the video that showed a young man with crutches being beaten by a Muslim ‘migrant’…
The third video shows two young men fighting near a river bank. It was originally posted to a Dutch viral video site in May 2017 and picked up by Dutch media the following day. Two 16 -year-old boys were arrested, according to De Telegraaf, and police removed the video. The boy’s religion was not included in any of the reports.
In her tweet, Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, wrote: “VIDEO: Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!”
A statement from the spokesman for the Dutch prosecution service Wednesday said the boy was not a migrant and was born and raised in the Netherlands.
They don’t say whether or not the attacker was Muslim and judging from the video it’s difficult to say, but he clearly wasn’t a migrant as she reported.
As for the video where a young man was thrown off of a roof, it wasn’t just a random Muslim mob as you might have thought. It was in the aftermath of the military coup that ousted Mohammed Morsi back in 2013:
The video of a bearded man pushing a boy off the roof was filmed in Egypt days after the overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi by Egypt’s military. In the video, a supporter of Morsi is seen roaming the roof of a building in the coastal city of Alexandria, raising a black flag often used by militants.
The video, widely circulated at the time, came at the start of bloody period in Egypt following protests in 2011. Pro-Morsi protesters, enraged by the ousting of the first Islamist and civilian president to be elected to office in Egypt, descended on a rally by opponents in violent protests that also set the tone for months to come. The military responded with a violent crackdown, including the bloody dispersal of Islamist protests that killed over 1,000 people.
The perpetrators of the roof violence were later sentenced to death for killing the boy and another man who were thrown off the roof.
So yes, it was an Islamist mob out for revenge. But the context is important to understand as there was much upheaval in those days. That doesn’t take away from what happened. After all, those men were sentenced to death and I’m guessing those sentences have already been carried out.
And lastly the video of the Muslim destroying the statue of the Virgin Mary…
Another video Trump retweeted Wednesday shows a man — said to be a supporter of Syria’s al-Qaida affiliate then known as the Nusra Front — smashing a blue and white statue of the Virgin Mary.
The video appeared on the internet in October 2013, in the midst of a civil war in Syria, and was reported by the Middle East Media Research Institute, MEMRI, who identified the man as Sheikk Omar Raghba. In the video, he declares that “idols” will no longer be worshipped in the Levant before he smashes the large statue in the Yakubiya village in northwestern Syria.
Yes, it is a jihadi terrorist destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, however it’s also from 2013 like the other. This one took place in the midst of the civil war in Syria. Clearly they had invaded a Christian area and were likely imposing their version of Sharia.
So there’s the facts on the videos. I think the latter two videos are important to show just how merciless these Muslims jihadists are, but it’s also important to convey the context. You’d think Trump could have asked his staff to do some of this legwork before just trumping them out like he did.