Terrorist Group Uses U.S Presidential Hopeful Donald Trump to Recruit Radicals

By Cheri Cheng - 02 Jan '16 10:51AM
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Al Shabaab, an affiliate group to al Qaeda, has included an excerpt of U.S. president hopeful, Donald Trump, in its latest 51-minute long recruitment video.

In the video, a member of the Somali terrorist group discusses America's history of slavery and racism before warning everyone that the country will become "a land of religious discrimination and concentration camps."

After 10 minutes in, the video goes to the clip of when Trump called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on."

Trump made this statement after a radicalized couple shot and killed more than a dozen of people in San Bernardino, California. Prior to the shooting, Trump was already making controversial comments in regards to Muslims.

He had wanted to increase surveillance at mosques and to create a database strictly for Muslims. Those earlier comments came after the Islamic State, which is also known as ISIS and ISIL, carried out shootings and bombings in Paris on Nov. 13. Those terror attacks killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.

The use of Trump in a recruitment video comes weeks after Democratic presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, made a comment about how terrorists are already using Trump to their advantage. Clinton's claim was never proven.

Clinton had said ISIS is "going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists."

Trump has not commented about being included in a terrorist recruitment video.

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