Who every thought that the Crusades were about closing the doors and staying home.
The radical rhetoric targeting President Donald Trump got extremely out of hand during Monday’s edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, with accusations that America’s number one enemy for 10 years, Osama bin Laden, desired Trump’s travel ban. “Osama bin Laden’s whole theory of a war of the west on Islam now gains great credence thanks to what Donald Trump just did,” declared the Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman to host Chris Matthews.
“We’re all crusaders now,” Matthews announced. “We are the crusaders officially in the eyes of Islam,” Fineman argued, building off of Matthews, “At least that’s what that’s what Osama said, that’s what Donald Trump has done. It is the reaction that Osama Bin Laden, himself, would have prayed for.” Fineman went off the deep end, exclaiming, “He prayed for and died for. This is 9/11 15 years later.”
This was all a part of Matthews’ first segment where he framed the ban as an affront to America’s relationship with Muslims in our military and those helping us in war zones abroad. “If you’re an American of the Islamic faith serving in the American military, do you have a strong confidence right now this is not a war against your religion,” he ridiculously asked in his opening tirade, “If you’re living a country fighting on America’s side and you’re Muslim, could you be getting this sense you are fighting against your own faith and people?”
The three-month hold on travel from select countries in the Middle East could hardly be seen as the start of a holy war by the United States. But that didn’t stop Matthews from trying to push the notion:
If you’re a sworn enemy of the United States are you happy or sad that your number one enemy in the world has just done you the favor of declaring this a war between east and west. Precisely what you have been saying with every bomb you explode, every word you speak, isn’t this what you dream of?
Via MRC TV