Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy said Tuesday “there is a difference” between white supremacist terrorists and ISIS-inspired Muslim terrorists.
On CNN’s New Day, Alysin Camerota asked Duffy why President Trump, who published a list of 78 terrorist attacks around the world and falsely claimed they had been under-reported by the media, didn’t mention the white terrorist who killed six Muslims during prayers in Quebec.
“That was a one-off,” Duffy said. Camerota reminded Duffy that the shooter, Alexandre Bissonnette, was in fact tied to a white nationalist movement.
“There is a difference,” Duffy said. “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 if you give me one example, I think that was in Canada, I am going to condemn them all. 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. Are you going to compare the one attack up in Canada to all the death and destruction in Europe from refugees?”
Camerota also reminded Duffy of the white supremacist Dylan Roof, who shot and killed nine African Americans in a church in Charleston.
“Look at the good that came with it,” Duffy said. “(Former South Carolina Governor) Nikky Haley took down the Confederate Flag.”
On Monday, Trump sought to justify his ban on immigration from seven predominantly Muslim nations by falsely claiming the “dishonest media” refused to cover Islamic terrorism, publishing the list of 78 terrorist attacks perpetrated by Muslims. The list (“riddled with spelling errors,” as CBS News helpfully pointed out) did not include any violence perpetrated by white extremists, despite many such attacks taking place over the past 20 years.
