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September 6, 2016

UN "Human Rights" Chief Likens Donald Trump to "Da'esh"/ISIS

UN human rights chief Zeid Raad Al Hussein
In Geneva on September 5, 2016, UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein compared European and U.S. "demagogues" to the Islamic State. In his words:

"I wish to address this short statement to Mr. Geert Wilders, his acolytes, indeed to all those like him – the populists, demagogues and political fantasists...

[W]hat Mr. Wilders shares in common with Mr. Trump, Mr. Orban, Mr. Zeman, Mr. Hofer, Mr. Fico, Madame Le Pen, Mr. Farage, he also shares with Da'esh.

All seek in varying degrees to recover a past, halcyon and so pure in form, where sunlit fields are settled by peoples united by ethnicity or religion – living peacefully in isolation, pilots of their fate, free of crime, foreign influence and war...

[I]n its mode of communication, its use of half-truths and oversimplification, the propaganda of Da'esh uses tactics similar to those of the populists. And both sides of this equation benefit from each other – indeed would not expand in influence without each others' actions..."
Date
September 6, 2016
Title
UN “Human Rights” Chief Likens Donald Trump to “Da’esh”/ISIS, United Nations Office in Geneva
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Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein
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http://www.unog.ch/unog/website/news_media.nsf/(httpNewsByYear_en)/0B19E6287955BDB0C1258026002F9F48?OpenDocument
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