MSNBC host Joy Reid shockingly claims Donald Trump is ‘radicalizing people like in the Muslim world’
MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed Donald Trump "radicalized" his supporters like those "in the Muslim world."
Reid came under fire for Islamophobia for likening the behavior and actions of the president's base to "the way Muslims act" during the 7pm slot.
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Reid noted that Trump liked a tweet praising the alleged vigilante shooter , 17, and praised his fans in Portland, who shot protesters with paintball guns and mace.
“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 US media describe that as they are ‘radicalizing’ these people, particularly when they’re radicalizing young people,” she said.
But one of Reid's panelists Newsweek editor Naveed Jamali defended her on Twitter, demanding to know why he – "the Brown guy on the panel" – wasn't asked for his opinion.
“Bc why would you ask the brown guy about islamophobia when white guys can chime in!" he tweeted.
But Muslim-American Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) have demanded that Reid say sorry.
Reid herself responded to the furore on Twitter.
"There’s been some thoughtful commentary but also some willful distortion of the points I tried to make yesterday," she wrote.
“We’ll discuss in more depth tomorrow on the show!”