News of President-elect Donald Trump’s national security picks set off fresh tremors across the Islamic world on Friday as Middle Eastern allies and Muslim American groups prepared to face advisers and potential Cabinet members noted for harshly anti-Muslim rhetoric. An Air Force veteran, Shareef said he worried that the appointments would alienate allies as well as American Muslims serving in the armed forces and in government. Both Flynn and Sessions have dismissed criticisms of their views on Islam as oversimplifications. But following the Boston Marathon attacks in 2013, he accused Muslim American leaders of being “potentially complicit” by failing to condemn extremist views more forcibly. Trump has gone further, repeatedly accusing American Muslims during his campaign of knowing about terrorists in their midst.

Source: National Post November 19, 2016 17:01 UTC