US President Donald Trump has responded to the Barcelona terror attack by spreading a debunked and controversial myth.
Trump took to social media hours after the deadly incident to condemn the attack. He went on to urge his audience on Twitter to study what a US general did to terrorists when he caught them. He was likely referring to the discredited story of an American general who is claimed to have ordered his men to shoot Muslim Filipinos, using bullets dipped in pig's blood in the early 1900.
Trump had mentioned the story during his presidential campaign as well. Many people have found the new comments extremely offensive as pigs are considered ritually unclean in Islam. In his tweet, Trump suggested that the American general’s actions could be an effective counter-terror strategy.
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