THE THREE ANTI-ISLAM FILMS RE-TWEETED BY PRESIDENT
1: ‘MUSLIM MIGRANT’ BEATS UP DUTCH BOY ON CRUTCHES
THE video purports to show a ‘Muslim migrant’ punching and kicking a young man on crutches until he collapses.
He then rains down several kicks and a punch as the man cowers on the ground near a river bank.
But Dutch authorities yesterday disputed the claim that it was a ‘migrant’ attacking the boy on crutches.
A statement corrected Mr Trump’s tweet, saying neither boy was a migrant nor a refugee, while Dutch media said the attacker was not a Muslim either.
The video was originally posted to Dutch viral video site Dumpert in May and picked up by Dutch media the following day.
After the video emerged, a 16-year-old boy suspected of carrying out the attack was arrested in his hometown of EdamVolendam in the northwest Netherlands.
Another 16-year-old boy from Monnickendam in the northwest Netherlands, believed to have filmed the attack, was also arrested.
A spokesman for the Dutch public prosecution service said yesterday the attacker – who was ‘born and raised in the Netherlands’ – was not prosecuted but instead entered into a juvenile rehabilitation scheme, known as the Halt programme.
2: MOB ‘PUSHES TEEN OFF ROOF AND BEATS HIM TO DEATH’
THIS footage shows an incident which took place during riots by Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Alexandria, Egypt, in July 2013 following the coup which ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
In the video, believed to have been filmed with a mobile phone from across the road, 19-year-old Hamada Badr is seen huddling with three friends on top of a 20ft ledge after being chased on to a rooftop by a Muslim Brotherhood mob.
The group of friends, targeted by the mob simply for celebrating the ousting of Morsi, are pelted with rocks before three of the boys are thrown off the ledge and beaten as they lie on the ground. One bearded man is seen carrying a black and white Al Qaeda flag.
Mr Badr died from his injuries while his two friends were seriously injured.
The footage appears to have been uploaded on to YouTube in July 2013 and received widespread attention from the mainstream media at the time.
3: ‘MUSLIM’ SMASHES VIRGIN MARY STATUE
THE third video appeared on YouTube more than four years ago, in October 2013.
It shows a bearded man speaking to the camera in Arabic as he holds up a statue of the Virgin Mary before throwing it to the ground, where it smashes into pieces.
According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, whose video of the incident has been viewed more than 17,000 times on YouTube, the footage was captured in a Syrian village and features a Muslim called Sheik Omar Raghba.
In his remarks to the camera before smashing the statue, he reportedly says: ‘Allah willing, Allah alone will be worshipped in the Levant, which will be ruled only by the law of Allah.
‘The idols will be worshipped no more in the Levant, Allah willing.
‘We shall accept nothing but Allah, his religion, and the Sunnah of his prophet.’