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Trump plays up Louvre attack, while remaining silent on mosque attack in Quebec

The attacker in Quebec was inspired by Trump his French equivalent, Marine Le Pen.

Police officers patrol at the pyramid outside the Louvre museum in Paris,Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Thibault Camus
Police officers patrol at the pyramid outside the Louvre museum in Paris,Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Thibault Camus

An attacker at France’s storied museum the Louvre was shot and seriously wounded Friday morning, and the incident elicited a predictable response (in tweet form no less) from our new Commander-in-Chief.

France’s answer to Trump, Front National leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, also took time to give a slightly more diplomatic statement over the social media platform.

Le Pen praised the military for being the front line against the “menace of Islamist barbarity.” Le Pen has ran a presidential campaign largely calling on anti-Muslim sentiment and anti-immigration promises.

Other noted anti-Muslim activists were similarly quick to jump on the attack, including:

https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/827484579632082944

https://twitter.com/AllenWest/status/827510549881700352

https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/827475342558363648

https://twitter.com/Uncle_Jimbo/status/827513850291437569

The Louvre attacker allegedly tried to attack security forces outside the museum with a knife. Though details are unclear, some French media reported the attacker yelled “Allahu Akbar”— “God is great” in Arabic — while rushing a soldier. It’s important to note that the attack resulted in a whopping zero deaths.

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Rewinding to Monday, a mosque in Quebec, Canada was attacked and six worshipers were killed and others wounded. Trump’s response? Silence.

The attacker, 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, “was known in the city’s activist circles as a right-wing troll who frequently took anti-foreigner and anti-feminist positions and stood up for U.S. President Donald Trump,” the Globe and Mail reported. “His online profile and school friendships revealed little interest in extremist politics until last March, when France’s far-right National Front Leader Marine Le Pen visited Quebec City, inspiring Mr. Bissonnette to vocal extreme online activism, according to people who clashed with him starting around this time.”

Also on Monday, White House Senior Counselor Kellyanne Conway made up an attack in Bowling Green, Kentucky to justify Trump’s recent Muslim ban.