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Mark Zuckerberg Storms Into The Trump 'Muslim Ban' Scandal, Tells Muslims "You Are Always Welcome Here"
Moments ago, the latest high profile media figure to boldly go into the rapidly spreading Trump "ban Muslims" scandal, was none other than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who in a post on his social network, took the other side of Trump declaring that "Muslims are always welcome here" and that Facebook will "fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment for you." It was not immediately clear if the "community" he was welcoming Muslims to is the United States or the online world of Facebook ad clickers.
His full Facebook post (which has so far been "liked" over 215K times) is below:
I want to add my voice in support of Muslims in our community and around the world.
After the Paris attacks and hate this week, I can only imagine the fear Muslims feel that they will be persecuted for the actions of others.
As a Jew, my parents taught me that we must stand up against attacks on all communities. Even if an attack isn't against you today, in time attacks on freedom for anyone will hurt everyone.
If you're a Muslim in this community, as the leader of Facebook I want you to know that you are always welcome here and that we will fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment for you.
Having a child has given us so much hope, but the hate of some can make it easy to succumb to cynicism. We must not lose hope. As long as we stand together and see the good in each other, we can build a better world for all people.
To some online commentators, the statement rings of hollow cynicism, since the gentrified Palo Alto enclave for uber wealthy tech millionaires where Zuckerberg lives is hardly the diverse melting pot of social, ethical and religious strife and tensions, which have come to characterize many of the world's geographic areas where cohabitation between Muslims and other religions has in recent months unleashed an unprecedented backlash - especially in Europe - against Muslims.
To others, Zucherberg's statement comes as a surprise that the social media mogul, who has until now resisted involvement in any openly political debates, has decided to so loudly wage right into this one.
The reason is that according to a just released poll, nearly two-thirds of likely GOP primary voters support Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from coming into the country. The latest Bloomberg Politics/Purple Strategies PulsePoll released Wednesday reveals that the real estate mogul’s latest remarks are backed by 65 percent of likely GOP voters. When told both sides of the argument, support for Trump’s proposal remained relatively unchanged at 64 percent.
The online poll conducted Wednesday also found that about 37 percent of those surveyed would be more likely to vote for the businessman after his call to temporarily halt Muslims from entering the United States until elected leaders can “figure out what’s going on.”
The risk that Zuckerberg is taking is that by openly endorsing the other side of the argument, while making an ethical stand he is also jeopardizing a business model which relies on the goodwill of its users, many of whom may be openly antagonized by Zuckerberg's moral stance. And since that 65% of GOP potential GOP voters, whose ideological position is now diametrically opposed to that of the Facebook CEO, is in the tens of millions of Americans, one wonder just how many of the 167 million in North American Daily Active Users...
... Zuckerberg is willing to sacrifice in order to make his stand?
Meanwhile, even as support for Trump's proposal appears to be widespread within the republican constituency, others don't share that view as can be seen by what Atlanta police have dubbed to be "Trump Swastika" which have been reported in various locations in Atlanta.
Donald Trump swastika graffiti reported in different locations in Atlanta, police say https://t.co/9l8PXGlCDM pic.twitter.com/qJFWC07tVH
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 9, 2015
Finally, taking a campaign that has been unorthodox, to say the least, from the start, late yesterday one of the biggest losers from Trump's relentless popularity, Jeb Bush, went on twitter to speculate that Trump's campaign is nothing but a conspiracy with Hillary, one which will "put here in the White House"
Maybe Donald negotiated a deal with his buddy @HillaryClinton. Continuing this path will put her in the White House. https://t.co/AlvByiSrMn
— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) December 8, 2015
The Telegraph had some thoughts on the matter:
Could Donald Trump be doing all this to wreck the Republican Party and clear the path for his old friend Hillary Clinton to take the White House. Here's the supporting evidence, such as it is:
- As recently as 2012 Trump said this of Mrs Clinton: "Hillary Clinton I think is a terrific woman. I am biased because I have known her for years. I live in New York. She lives in New York. I really like her and her husband both a lot. I think she really works hard."
- Trump previously donated money to Mrs Clinton in 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
- Trump has donated more than $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
- Trump's daughter Ivanka is close friends with Chelsea Clinton.
- In 2005 Hillary Clinton attended Mr Trump's wedding to Melania Knauss, his current wife, in Florida.
- Trump was a registered Democrat between 2001 and 2009 before switching to the Republican Party.
- It all adds up for Jeb Bush, whose campaign has been killed by Trump's popularity. Bush said: "Maybe Donald negotiated a deal with his buddy Hillary Clinton. Continuing this path will put her in the White House."
Or perhaps, the conspiracy is even greater.
According to the Chief Investment Officer of CalSTRS, "a presidential matchup between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton could sap a full percentage point from anticipated growth in the gross domestic product, the chief investment officer of the second-largest U.S. pension fund said."
“Can you imagine a whole year of Trump and Hillary going at each other?” Christopher Ailman, who manages the California State Teachers’ Retirement System’s $184 billion portfolio, said Tuesday on Bloomberg Television. “It’s going to be a drag on the economy.”
Ailman said 70 percent of the U.S. economy is based on consumer sales, and a divisive presidential campaign is likely to depress consumer confidence. He didn’t comment on Clinton but said Trump’s statements “reverberate” across the global economy. The Republican real-estate mogul, who leads in all national polls for his party’s nomination, this week called for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.
“I’m worried about 2016,” said Ailman, who has a degree in business economics. “If you took everybody’s GDP projections of 2 to 3 percent growth, I’m sad to say you could probably take a full percentage point off of that.”
In a year in which a record El Nino is expected to make the GDP-crushing "harsh winter" a distant memory, perhaps a Trump vs Clinton campaign is precisely what the soon to be much weaker US economy needs as the Fed is in urgently need of an alibi when the "expected" growth resulting from the December 16 rate hike fails to materialize - and in fact leads to just the opposite outcome - and the Fed is forced to backtrack instead, launching either NIRP or more QE or both. Thanks to Trump and Hillary going "at each other", of course.
What the answer is we don't know, although as US society appears ready to split along racial, social, cultural and religious lines, we have somehow never felt quite so entertained even as society is quietly tearing itself apart.
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Is that what you're afraid of - that they'll force you to live under Sharia law?
I just don't understand this fear. But you can certainly see how it can be used to control the masses.
Clearly this is part of a long list of things you don't understand.
I think the concern is with the new ones coming in. Why open the flood gates?
If I remember correctly, Trump called for a TEMPORARY ban on new muslims coming into the country in order to keep control over the jihadi storm that would surely follow.
Updated definition of Terrorist: a nursing mother who throws her baby under the bus for Allah. Vet THAT.
How about that bloke Barack Obama from Indonesia.
Heyyy kind hearted SuckMeBerg how about you tell your good 'ol Kenyan friend to stop bombing Muzzie asses off for the benefit of your tribal blood? We know 'W' was really bad ... but the socialist/fascist of color has already blown up 9 Muzzie countries so far & its startin' to get on their nerves a 'lil! Plus your displaced Muzzie friends might want to stay home where they belong! And if you got some spare time ... Fuck Right Off!
Hey Zuckerberg. If this is not an invite for them all to stay in your manpad (and the homes surrounding the manpad which you own) then it's just another Buffet moment: do as I say not as I do (re: taxes).It's obviously the latter so this is not philanthropist Zuckerberg but Zionist and Bilderberg-backed Zuckerberg. Instead of focusing hus wealth and inflyence on relocating Israel to the Caucasus (where DNA analysis proves the Joos originated) these fuckers are somehow experts on refugees.
Jews always did side w/ the Muslims during the Crusades..
Are they grooming zuckster to be a presidential candidate in 2020? He seems to be spouting more asinine diatribe since the birth of his baby jesus.
WHy do those sociopaths who get rich come to think that they speak for everyone? Come the zombie apocalypse, I think that the rest of us should work extra hard to disabuse them of that notion, no?
Because they control the media & medium!
A stain on our culture.
fuckerberg and his facefuck intel asset can take a 404
So ISIS can resume posting beheading videos on FB? They'll be thrilled.
Is there anything more adorable that a young self righteous pontificating sell-out hypocrtite! Right up there with 'puppies & rainbows' in my books!
fk off zuchinibird and go give obama head.
Zuckberg for president.
Zero Hedge gives the impression people have a choice...
Look we are social animals - it is both a blessing and a curse.
I don't really know or want to know about America but in Ireland people who want to engage socially go to the pub.
In other countries it is the coffee house, smoking house etc etc
They do not have the purchasing power to engage with their physical surrounding, therefore they will be herded into the Facebook plantation whether they want to or not.
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And Obama hates social media with a vengeance. Suck it up Suckerberg.
"As a Jew, my parents taught me that we must stand up against attacks on all communities. Even if an attack isn't against you today, in time attacks on freedom for anyone will hurt everyone."
So, you would welcome Nazis with open arms? No? Why not? They are a community that is under attack from all sides. They are persecuted and put under travel bans. They can be forbidden from entereing the states. There only crime is a past violence against another group. Hmmmmm . Sounds like muslims, no?
The system will always win, but you can make the victory very bitter for the white whale.
Stick as many harpoons into the fucker as you can.
If you somehow manage to watch the system bleed then its a victory of sorts.
This wasn't the same warm hearted caring progressive liberal freak that stole & stiffed the FB idea/concept from his 'friends' at Harvard was it? Say it ain't so Markie Boy!
Starbuck, first mate: To be enraged with a dumb brute that acted out of blind instinct is blasphemous.
Captain Ahab: Speak not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. Look ye, Starbuck, all visible objects are but as pasteboard masks. Some inscrutable yet reasoning thing puts forth the molding of their features. The white whale tasks me; he heaps me. Yet he is but a mask. 'Tis the thing behind the mask I chiefly hate; the malignant thing that has plagued mankind since time began; the thing that maws and mutilates our race, not killing us outright but letting us live on, with half a heart and half a lung
FecesBook CEO Zuckerburglar.
Zuckerfucker
Did he ask all his Indian employees?
LOL! Silly stupid goyim. Why the kvetching? You know Zuckerberg is one of us, a jew. We control all forms media. We control all heads of state. You goyim have short memory. Have memory span of fence post. Oy Vey!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ
Dear Muslims,
You will always be welcome here at FB*
* Subject to our terms and conditions governing malicious comments about what a piece of shit our company is.
Zuckerberg. Aren't you a hebe?
You're KAFIR to the muslims. You stupid cunt, they have zero respect for you.
Well Mark baby,,, better hope Trump doesn't get elected,,, might be a bad company decision.
Both Puting and Trumped became 'radicalized' two weeks ago.
And that my ZH friends is one of the prime reasons I don't Face Plant, besides the fact that you may as well let the mother fuckers insert a camera and a mic up your corn hole if you sign up.
That's right, come to facebook and reveal all your inner thoughts and desires my little muzzie friends. You are safe here. Don't worry, nobody reads this stuff except your friends. Cum to butthead.
After the Paris attacks and San Bernardino Terrorist Attack this week, I can only imagine the fear GUN OWNERS feel that they will be persecuted for the actions of others.
you know, a little consistency is all i ask .
liberalism is the disease and social media is it's preferred vector
This guy is such a dope.
Did you know he is a Rockefeller grandson.
Did you know the CIA give him a $500 million grant to get it going?
What else needs to be said?
I dont use Facebook, and in case people didnt know it, let this serve as a reminder of how in bed with the US .gov that FB is. Jews dont like it when other Jews steal their money. Cant imagine the sandnigger threat is one that Jews dont see.
Christian = Bad, Muslim = Good. This is the end
Fuck You Yuckerberg. You would be a big fat Zero if you weren't a Rockefeller...
What else would you expect from Zuckerberka, an ultra-liberal PC Wall Street boy.
Zuckerberg is a totalitarian socialist desperate to control everyone and everything. Just another Hitler wannabe.
Will someone SHOOT HIM IN THE HEAD ALREADY?
maximum security prison in the general population for these traitors
zuckerberg is a pansy. he will burn in hell
I challenge you to a duel mr zukerberger. How about baseball bats at 3 paces?
Fuck that bullshit. Blow his fucking Zionist Head off.
Put the barrel at the juncture of the neck/torso. Cut off the remaining tissue so you have enough left to stick on a fucking pike.
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Had enough of the Satanic Talmud Khazar, USA?
Eliminate the Virus.
Theme Song of the Zionista:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrTzYyMWI6o
Satan is Zionism.
Hey, Mark Zionberg: Freedom is the sound of an American racking the slide on a 870 Remington. In Your Face.
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Fuck you Zionist Pigs. We have had Enough. Get out of our Country while you are still alive.
Spoken by the kid who has done as much as anyone to kill the productivity of our once great nation. People driveling on and on instead of raising children, working at their job (if they have one) and in general, being worthless non contributors to our society.
How many folks actually fell for this? Again I go back to where people can't tell the difference between the virtual world values and the real world. I wrote that up about 2 years ago initially. This article is correct, it's more ad clickers as being a virtual personality on Facebook is not the same as facing an ISIL terrorist or any terrorist for that matter. What a dip he is...we all know the bots rule over there at Facebook and further WTF is Obama doing with a personal Facebook page now? Maybe Rahm Emanuel can "friend" him over there and they can whine together, while Zuckerberg watches with glee as his crafted Facebook algorithms can even control the thinking and actions of the US government. Seriously, how can you take a President seriously that believes that Facebook is the best way to communicate with citizens with all the avenues he has open to him?? Duh?
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2015/06/virtual-world-values-and-real-world-we.html
We all understand Trump pretty well and this profit making cling on stuff for click bait on Facebook is stupid.
You are always welcome
becuz
(we work for the govt(NSA) & it has its eyes on you)
Hey ZUck..how do you feel about Muslims in Palestine?
"I wasn't in their Fucking Army anymore."
In the end, Alex, a common poster here, claims that Zuck is fake. The funny thing is, I'm 'crazy' enough to not be on facebook (but not to judge people), but anyone can judge our country, People care more about Facebook than whether the President gives a ****.
Just another liberal who wants to ban other peoples speech......
But, of course, his offensive speech is sacrosanct......
Facebook......LMAO!.....the dumbing down of America....
You ever notice that Mark Zuckerberg looks like Nathaniel Rothschild? http://www.bloomberg.com/image/iWs44O.gzKsM.jpg
Just goes to show how money doesn't equate to character.
This guy's an idiot. If the terrorist were really smart they would start direct assassinations of dimwits like Mark. Of course, the Muslim's would be doing us a great favor to get rid of this ilk. His supposed high tech company is a rehash of prior social media sites. He has about another 2-3 years left before it too disappears.
What kind of business whore uses a statement by a political candidate to get his name in the news.
hey rockefella here is one for you bitch
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Zucko if anything is a smart businessman. Why would he jeopardize alienating the 1+ billion Muslims (and potential FB users) around the world by not coming out in support of them? Greed is colorblind
Phuc Dat Bich!
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Three Truths
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Schtick it Zuckerputz!
funny terrorists only kill the common people - never the wealthy elite - seems the uckerberg's and buffet's and munger's and bernanke's have got it covered. so why not welcome more they are no threat to these guys.
This is the perfect time to introduce the 99.99999999999% income and capital gains social contribution tax on silicon valley socioparasite coercive-collectivist billionaires like Zuck, so we can put their money where their mouth is.
Zuck's primary source of income and revenue is "Advertisers", advertisers like the CIA, NSA, RNC, DNC, DOJ, DOD, FEC, IRS and Walmart.
Hmmm, now why would a good zionist say that moslems are always welcome? Maybe because the plan is to cause chaos? Divide and conquer?
We should ask John Kerry, aka Kohn. He should know.