Gateway Pundit Attacks Obama For Defending “Patriotic Muslims” With Photo Of Obama In Somali Garb

Gateway Pundit Has Been Repeatedly Cited By President-Elect Trump

Written by Thomas Bishop

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Following President Obama urging Americans not to stigmatize patriotic Muslims, The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft claimed “Lame-Duck Obama Defends Islam – Blames Americans for Feeding ‘Terrorist Narrative’” and included a photo of Obama wearing traditional Somali dress in his piece.

Hoft attacked Obama’s December 6 remarks on his administration’s approach to counterterrorism where Obama spoke about the need for American’s not to “stigmatize good, patriotic Muslims” because “that just feeds the terrorists’ narrative”:

If we stigmatize good, patriotic Muslims, that just feeds the terrorists’ narrative. It fuels the same false grievances that they use to motivate people to kill. If we act like this is a war between the United States and Islam, we're not just going to lose more Americans to terrorist attacks, but we’ll also lose sight of the very principles we claim to defend.

Hoft responded by claiming Obama “blamed Americans for feeding the terrorist narrative,” and posted an unrelated photo of Obama wearing traditional Somali attire while on a 2006 trip to Kenya:

Obama traveled to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida this week to address the military for the last time.

Obama defended his policies that resulted in the rise of the Islamic State.

The lame-duck president also defended Islam and blamed Americans for feeding the terrorist narrative.

Good grief.

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This smear tactic has been used by right-wing media to attack President Obama throughout his presidency to claim he has an “emotional attachment to the Muslim world.”

The Gateway Pundit has been a go-to site for President-elect Donald Trump who has linked to the website 23 times on Twitter and used the information attack and smear President Obama. 

CORRECTION: This post originally stated that Hoft featured an image of Obama wearing traditional Muslim clothing at his brother's wedding. While Fox's Bill O'Reilly recently used such an image to smear Obama on the same grounds, the image Hoft highlighted showed Obama in traditional Somali garb during a 2006 trip to Kenya.