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Michael Flynn
25th United States National Security Advisor
- Updated: April 21, 2023
—Critiqued the Obama administration’s move to advance LGBT rights, calling President Obama “spineless” and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “reckless,” and demeaned the struggle for transgender rights by using langage associated with transgender being attacked for using language and bathrooms in accordance with their gender identity: “Our soldiers… deserve to hear from our leaders with clarity and precision… Too often… our troops are instead are distracted by trivial matters, trivial matters about what words to use, what terminology is politically correct and what bathroom door to open up.”
—Boasted that he does not consider Islam a religion: “I don’t call this a religion, okay?… Islam is a political ideology based on this religion. In our case, in the United States of America, they mask behind the religion because of our constitutional right to freedom of religion.”
—Further claimed: “Islam is a political ideology. It is a political ideology. It definitely hides behind this notion of it being a religion…It’s like cancer. You know, I’ve gone through cancer in my own life. So it’s like cancer. And it’s a like a malignant cancer, though, in this case. It has metastasized.”
—Tweeted that “Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL.”
—Dared “Arab & Persian world ‘leaders’ to step up to the plate and declare their Islamic ideology sick and must B healed.”
—Tweeted a story that implied there are no “moderate” Muslims: “The term ‘moderate Islam’ is ugly and offensive.”
—Claimed progressives are racist: “I’m on my soapbox right now, and I’m sorry, but you’re gonna see, and you’re gonna hear, words like, ‘Donald Trump’s dangerous,’ ‘Donald Trump’s a racist.’ But you know who the racists are? The racists are those in the progressive movement. The dangerous elements are those in the progressive movement, those that want to change this country into something that it is not, something that it was never created to be.”
—Claimed of Muslims: “Islamism, it is a vicious cancer inside the body of 1.7 billion people on this planet and it has to be excised.”
—Insisted that some human beings are “illegal,” not undocumented.
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