Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque, Defense Secretary Hegseth\u2019s New \u2018Kafir\u2019 Tattoo is the Perfect Encapsulation of Trumpish Foreign Policy, 3 Apr 2025<\/a> (opinion\/analysis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n“In a way, this tattoo is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpish foreign policy: offensive, brutish, and flaunting its disregard for anyone who isn\u2019t a White, conservative Christian aligned with the administration\u2019s draconian policy positions. It is\u2014just like Hegseth\u2019s nomination itself\u2014both a threat and a promise to those it considers not fully human.\u00a0” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The misreading of history from Hegseth et al is beyond parody (and into something far more dangerous) Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque, Defense Secretary Hegseth\u2019s New \u2018Kafir\u2019 Tattoo is the Perfect Encapsulation of Trumpish Foreign Policy, 3 Apr 2025 (opinion\/analysis) “In a way, this tattoo is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpish foreign policy: offensive, brutish, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,449,235],"tags":[339,414,685,641],"class_list":["post-8310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-muslim-hate","category-anti-muslim-prejudice","category-history","tag-islamophobia","tag-anti-muslim-hate","tag-anti-muslim-prejudice","tag-us-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8311,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions\/8311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}