On Friday morning, a man wielding a knife was shot and injured by soldiers patrolling near the Louvre Museum in Paris after he allegedly attacked them and shouted, “Allahu Akbar.”
French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve described the incident as “terrorist in nature.” Trump tweeted about the attack as well, invoking “radical Islamic terrorism” as a scourge.
The Louvre incident comes five days after white terrorist Alexandre Bissonnette shot and killed six Muslim men at a mosque in Quebec City.
Trump didn’t tweet about it. Instead, his press secretary, Sean Spicer, used it to justify the president’s de facto Muslim ban. Read more