(The Guardian) On 16 June 2016, Jo Cox, the British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen, died after being shot and stabbed multiple times in Birstall, West Yorkshire.
Thomas Mair uttered the words “Britain first” and “keep Britain independent” as he carried out the “brutal, cowardly” and politically motivated murder according to Mair’s prosecutor.
“Britain first” is not just the mantra of the assassin, it’s the name of an anti-Muslim, hate mongering organization based in England. It’s deputy leader is Jayda Fransen.
Fransen is a convicted felon.
(Wikipedia) During one of Britain First’s “Christian patrols” in Luton, November 2016, Fransen was convicted of religiously aggravated harassment after she harassed a Muslim mother-of-four because she was wearing a hijab and ordered to pay a fine of £1,000. In addition, she was also fined £200 on account of breaching the Public Order Act 1936 by wearing a political uniform and ordered to pay £620 in costs (including a £100 surcharge), and issued with a two-year restraining order to prevent her from contacting the victim or engaging in intimidating behaviour towards her. Fransen denied all charges, accusing the courts of being “absurd”, and engaging in “a really clear display of Islamic appeasement”.
It is Fransen’s anti-Muslim videos that Trump retweeted.
Her response,
“God bless you Trump! God bless America!”
Had Donald Trump taken fifteen seconds to Google her name, he might have realized there would have been a problem with him retweeting her videos. Right.
And pigs can fly.
(The Guardian) A top Democrat condemned Donald Trump as a “racist” hours after the president retweeted a series of anti-Muslim videos on Wednesday that were posted by the deputy leader of a British far-right group.
“The president is racist. There’s no doubt about that in my mind,”
Keith Ellison, the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee and a Muslim member of Congress, told the Guardian.
By the way, Roy Moore, Republican candidate for Senator of Alabama, once said Ellison should not be allowed to serve in Congress because he’s a Muslim.
In a Guardian piece penned by Brendon Cox, husband of the late Jo Cox, he cited a recent study by The Pew Research Center,
“ A recent world study by Pew found people united in disavowal of the president – for instance 75% of the British public had no confidence in Trump to do the right thing in world affairs, 89% saw him as arrogant and 69% saw him as dangerous. Even less than half of Ukip voters trusted him to do the right thing in global affairs.”
There is a call in Parliament demanding an apology from Trump (pigs can fly) and to cancel his state visit.
Personally, I’d love to see Trump go there. If he thinks the “alt-left” protest rallies in the US are too much, wait till he gets there.
Trump’s popularity in the UK and Europe is far lower than the US,