The US State Department’s nominee to coordinate billions of dollars in United Nations assistance to refugees across the world has expressed extreme anti-Muslim views in social media posts, falsely suggesting that Islam is an inherently violent religion and that Christians should receive preferential treatment when resettling from hostile areas.
The nominee, identified as Ken Issacs, is a vice president of the Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse and has made “disparaging remarks about Muslims” in tweets, social media posts and radio appearances, The Washington Post reported Saturday citing the daily’s review of his public comments.
Following a terrorist attack in London last June, Issacs reposted and commented on a CNN International story that quoted a Catholic bishop as saying “this isn’t in the name of God, this isn’t what the Muslim faith asks people to do.” He then responded to the news item by…