The administration of US President Donald Trump has been trying to blame all of America’s problems on Muslims to create a distraction from his own policies, which favor the rich, argues an American scholar in Madison, Wisconsin.
Dr. Kevin Barrett made the remarks after reports emerged that the new US Ambassador to the Netherlands Peter Hoekstra apologized for denying his anti-Islamic remarks in a 2015 interview, where he suggested that Holland was in chaos because of Muslims.
“Essentially these people are trying to blame all of the world’s problems and specially the problems of the American working class on Muslims and Mexicans and whoever else is a convenient scapegoat,” he told Press TV on Sunday.
The scapegoats in turn provide Trump and his team with the cover they need to keep “robbing his base” hand more money to the rich without making too much noise, he added.
Speaking at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Restoration…