GOP Rep: 'There's A Difference' Between White And Islamic Terrorists
By MATT SHUHAM Published FEBRUARY 7, 2017, 12:12 PM EDT
One Republican congressman differentiated between white terrorists and “radical Islamic terrorists” on Tuesday, saying “there's a difference” between attacks by the groups.
“There's a difference,” Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, when she asked him why Trump hadn’t condemned the white supremacist who killed six Muslim congregants during prayer at a Canadian mosque on Jan. 29.
“Again, death and murder on both sides is wrong, but if you want to take the dozens of scenarios where ISIS-inspired attacks have taken innocents, and you give one example of what was in Canada, I’m going to condemn them all,” Duffy said. “But again, you don't have a group like ISIS or Al Qaeda that’s inspiring people around the world to take up arms and kill innocents. That was a one-off, that was a one-off, Alisyn. And you have a movement on the other side.”
When Camerota brought up other examples of white people committing acts of terrorism—the Oklahoma City bombing and the Charleston shooting of black church-goers—Duffy was dismissive. “Oklahoma was, what, 20 years ago?” he said. “That's different than this whole movement that has taken place through ISIS.”
“It does matter,” he said later of the Charleston massacre. “Look at the good things that came from it. Nikki Haley took down the confederate flag, that was great!”
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