Good grief.
Via FP:
The U.N.’s top genocide expert waded into the toxic American debate on the massacres of 49 people at a gay bar in Orlando, Florida, and issued a thinly veiled swipe at presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Christian extremists for exploiting the tragedy to fuel anti-Muslim hatred.
“At a time when there was greatest need for sympathy and solidarity, I was appalled by the immediate and shameful efforts of some political and religious leaders to manipulate and politicize the events in Orlando to fuel fear, intolerance, and hatred,” Adama Dieng, the U.N. special advisor to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the prevention of genocide, said Friday in a statement.
Dieng stopped short of calling out Trump by name. But he criticized calls by “some politicians to cite radical Islam as the cause of the attack in Orlando, to ban Muslims from the United States, and to label all Muslims as terrorists.”
While Trump hasn’t labeled all Muslims terrorists, he has called for a ban on Muslim immigrants entering the United States. More recently he blasted President Barack Obama for refusing to use the term “radical Islam” in describing shooter Omar Mateen’s motive for the Orlando killings.
Obama has long avoided characterizing attacks by individuals inspired or acting on behalf of the Islamic State or al Qaeda as “radical Islam” because he believes it would unfairly tarnish one of the world’s most important religions and undermine international support for the U.S.-led military campaign against the Islamic State, which is also known as ISIL.