{"id":505893,"date":"2016-11-29T14:43:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/ret-lt-gen-michael-flynn-national-security-adviser\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:51","slug":"ret-lt-gen-michael-flynn-national-security-adviser","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/ret-lt-gen-michael-flynn-national-security-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Flynn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Critiqued<\/a> the Obama administration\u2019s move to advance LGBT rights, calling President Obama \u201cspineless\u201d and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton \u201creckless,\u201d and demeaned the struggle for transgender rights by using langage associated with transgender being attacked for using language and bathrooms in accordance with their gender identity: \u201cOur soldiers\u2026 deserve to hear from our leaders with clarity and precision\u2026 Too often\u2026 our troops are instead are distracted by trivial matters, trivial matters about what words to use, what terminology is politically correct and what bathroom door to open up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Boasted<\/a> that he does not consider Islam a religion: \u201cI don\u2019t call this a religion, okay?… Islam is a political ideology based on this religion. In our case, in the United States of America, they mask behind the religion because of our constitutional right to freedom of religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Further claimed<\/a>: \u201cIslam is a political ideology. It is a political ideology. It definitely hides behind this notion of it being a religion…It\u2019s like cancer. You know, I\u2019ve gone through cancer in my own life. So it\u2019s like cancer. And it\u2019s a like a malignant cancer, though, in this case. It has metastasized.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Tweeted<\/a> that \u201cFear of Muslims is RATIONAL.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Dared<\/a> \u201cArab & Persian world \u2018leaders\u2019 to step up to the plate and declare their Islamic ideology sick and must B healed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Tweeted<\/a> a story that implied there are no \u201cmoderate\u201d Muslims: \u201cThe term \u2018moderate Islam\u2019 is ugly and offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a> progressives are racist: \u201cI\u2019m on my soapbox right now, and I\u2019m sorry, but you\u2019re gonna see, and you\u2019re gonna hear, words like, \u2018Donald Trump\u2019s dangerous,\u2019 \u2018Donald Trump\u2019s a racist.\u2019 But you know who the racists are? The racists are those in the progressive movement. The dangerous elements are those in the progressive movement, those that want to change this country into something that it is not, something that it was never created to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a> of Muslims: \u201cIslamism, it is a vicious cancer inside the body of 1.7 billion people on this planet and it has to be excised.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Insisted<\/a> that some human beings are \u201cillegal,\u201d not undocumented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":343,"featured_media":505894,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[138565],"hashtag":[138632],"class_list":{"0":"post-505893","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-gaps","7":"region-national","8":"hashtag-politics"},"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t