{"id":346753,"date":"2018-02-04T08:39:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T07:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-picks-open-islamophobe-for-un-refugee-post\/"},"modified":"2018-02-04T08:39:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T07:39:31","slug":"presstv-us-picks-open-islamophobe-for-un-refugee-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-picks-open-islamophobe-for-un-refugee-post\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US picks open Islamophobe for UN refugee post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US State Department\u2019s 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\u00a0preferential treatment when resettling from hostile areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The nominee, identified as Ken Issacs, is a vice president of the Christian relief organization Samaritan\u2019s Purse and has made \u201cdisparaging remarks about Muslims\u201d in tweets, social media posts and radio appearances, <em>The Washington Post<\/em> reported Saturday citing the daily\u2019s review of his public comments.<\/p>\n<p>Following a terrorist attack in London last June, Issacs reposted and commented on a CNN International story that quoted a Catholic bishop as saying \u201cthis isn\u2019t in the name of God, this isn\u2019t what the Muslim faith asks people to do.\u201d He then responded to the news item by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/04\/551190\/US-Trump-administration-Ken-Issacs-antiMuslim-UN-post-refugees-State-Department\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department\u2019s 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\u00a0preferential treatment when resettling from hostile areas. The nominee, identified as Ken Issacs, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}