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Joy Reid Accuses Trump Supporters of Acting Like ‘Muslims’

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Joy Reid Accuses Trump Supporters of Acting Like ‘Muslims’

Joy Reid, the MSNBC host who (sort of) acknowledged and (sort of) apologized for having authored homophobic blog posts, condemned Donald Trump for encouraging violence and radicalizing his supporters “the way Muslims [do].”

“When leaders, let’s say in the Muslim world, talk a lot of violent talk, and encourage their supporters to be willing to commit violence, including on their own bodies, in order to win against whoever they decide is the enemy, we in the U.S. media describe that as they are ‘radicalizing’ those people, particularly when they’re radicalizing young people,” Reid said during a panel discussion about Trump’s response to the violence taking place in Kenosha, Wisc. “That’s how we talk about the way Muslims act.”

Leftwing radicals criticized Reid for engaging in Islamophobia. Linda Sarsour, the controversial activist whose proclivity for anti-Semitism precipitated her resignation from the Women’s March movement, described Reid’s comments as “not good.”

It remains to be seen whether Reid will attempt to blame her vile outburst on foreign hackers who altered the text in her teleprompter or simply issue a half-hearted apology.

Andrew StilesAndrew Stiles is senior writer at the Washington Free Beacon. He can be reached at [email protected].

David Rutz is senior writer at the Washington Free Beacon. He was previously a sports reporter for two years in Atlanta and has done freelance sports reporting for the Washington Post. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2010 and lives in Marietta, Ga. His Twitter handle is @DavidRutz. He can be reached at [email protected].

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