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D’Souza Compares Protesters to ISIS

August 24, 2014 at 10:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Just published: Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream by Dinesh D’Souza.

The Daily Beast notes that D’Souza — recently convicted on campaign finance violations — compared protesters in Ferguson, MO to ISIS in Iraq in a recent interview promoting the book.

Said D’Souza: “The common thread between ISIS and what’s going on in Ferguson is you have these people who basically believe that to correct perceived injustice, it’s perfectly okay to inflict all types of new injustices. Behead guys who had nothing to do with it. Go and loot shops from business owners who were not part of the original problem whatsoever. And all of this is then licensed by the left and licensed, to some degree, by the media.”

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