The image and name of American presidential hopeful Donald Trump was gone on Friday from much of a Dubai golf course and housing development amid the uproar over his comments about banning Muslims from traveling to the United States. This is what ISIS wants. “The more Muslims feel sad, the more ISIS feel that they can recruit them, the more United States appears to be targeting Muslims, not just radical Muslims”.
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Anonymous also called for a disruption of ISIS’ social media today in what the group is dubbing “ISIS Trolling Day”, in which multiple online channels, pages, and hashtags used by ISIS were overtaken by mocking anti-ISIS images and other propaganda.
After a video message was posted Wednesday by a YouTube account affiliated with Anonymous, the website of Trump Tower in New York City went down for at least an hour. “You have been warned”, the video says.
The Trump Towers website appears to be operational now, but the tweet from Anonymous claims it is running as an offline backup.
Trump, however, has not wavered in his position that all Muslims should be temporarily barred from entering the United States.
The comments drew fire and fury across nations and party lines, as Republican and Democratic figureheads alike criticized the candidate for his extremism.
Chanting “Dump Trump” and “refugees welcome”, the activists on Thursday rebuked Trump’s comments.
The Trump Tower New York’s website is protected by CloudFlare.
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“There is no indication at this point as to whether Anonymous plans further actions as part of its #OpTrump exercise, though Twitter is now loaded with warnings like the one seen here, which shows Trump’s face photoshopped onto the body of Nazi official and declares, “#OpTrump is on”. Consequently, that fear has helped garner support for Trump’s extremest political response to terrorism.
