Donald Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn blasted as 'anti-Muslim' by major civil rights group

Rasa - One of the country's largest civil rights groups has issued an alert ripping President-elect Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser as a potentially dangerous man with a penchant for tweeting and retweeting anti-Muslim tirades.

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Date: 22 December 2016 - 16:58

RNA - One of the country's largest civil rights groups has issued an alert ripping President-elect Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser as a potentially dangerous man with a penchant for tweeting and retweeting anti-Muslim tirades.

The Southern Poverty Law Center in a Tuesday report urged Americans to pay close attention to retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who was tapped as Trump's top security adviser last month.

"Flynn has been no stranger to the anti-Muslim movement," the report states. "But perhaps most surprisingly, Flynn follows two individuals who use the hashtag #WhiteGenocide proudly displayed in their Twitter biographies."

The nefarious hashtag is frequently used by white supremacists who believe that the white race is facing extinction due to widespread multiculturalism. It was inspired by an infamous 221-word social media screed known as "The Mantra," which concludes with the phrase, "Anti-racist is code word for anti-white."

The SPLC report, which examined roughly 1,700 of Flynn's tweets, also points out that the former Army man has praised the hate group-labeled ACT for America. He has called the group's leader, Brigitte Gabriel, an "incredibly courageous person," "a national treasure" and "one of the most courageous women of our time."

"Gabriel has made an entire career out of demonizing Islam," SPLC stated. "She wrote that, 'the Arab Muslim world, because of its religion and culture, is a natural threat to civilized people of the world.'"

Besides praising and retweeting prominent anti-Muslim voices, Flynn has said in a tweet that "fear of Muslims is RATIONAL." He has also repeatedly claimed that "political correctness" at home has allowed terrorism groups to spawn across the world.

Further, Flynn has reposted YouTube videos from outspoken anti-Muslim figureheads Pat Condell and Pamela Geller, calling their opinions "really interesting."

The scathing SPLC report comes just one day after it became known that Flynn recently met at Trump Tower with the leader of the Austrian far-right Freedom Party, which was founded in the 1950s by ex-Nazis.

The leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, said in a Monday Facebook post that the "friendly" meeting had been about a so-called "cooperation agreement" that his party has signed with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Strache did not elaborate on what had been discussed during the meeting and the Trump transition team did not return a request for comment from the Daily News on Tuesday.

The President-elect himself was repeatedly accused of peddling in anti-Muslim rhetoric during the campaign, and has since winning the election appointed several people with ties to white supremacy to cabinet-level positions.

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