Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric reverberated across the globe among white supremacist movements

Evidence

“With Donald Trump running for the Republican nomination [in the United States] in 2016 it became very apparent, very quickly that the Men’s Rights Movement was riddled with racists and Islamophobes. It was like a Donald Trump cult even here in Australia, because now it was really OK to call for an end to Muslim immigration, and go on about Sharia,” Abdullah recollected. … Trump’s anti-Muslim campaign resonated with white men in Australia, on the literal opposite side of the world. The Trump effect on white men who blamed their woes on nonwhites was global. Regular white men, like those Abdullah spoke to on a daily basis, and Brenton Tarrant, looked up to Trump as a “renewed symbol of white identity.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 929

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s global-synthesis purpose — a state/figurehead exporting Islamophobic technique across borders; pairs with Iftikhar’s comparative lens. — connects to: Trump’s Muslim ban escalated Islamophobia to overt racial-nationalist action; The 2016 Trump era mainstreamed conspiracy-peddling anti-immigrant and white-supremacist groups — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 30