Allstate CEO Tom Wilson ignited a firestorm on social media Thursday with a video statement about Wednesday. a terrorist attack New Orleans killed more than a dozen people.
Wilson's statement came before the Sugar Cupof which Allstate is the official corporate sponsor, after the game was postponed Thursday because of the attack. In the video, Wilson suggested Americans are “addicted to division” and must “accept the imperfections and differences of people.”
“Our prayers go out to the victims and their families. We also need to be stronger together by overcoming the addiction to division and neglect. Join Allstate working in communities across America to strengthen the positive, to increase trust and accept people's flaws and differences. Together we win,” Wilson says in the video.
Wilson's comments sparked outrage among social media users. The suspect has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar. The FBI is working to identify Jabbar's “possible associations with terrorist organizations,” after an ISIS flag was found attached to the truck.
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Political activist Charlie Kirk spoke out against Wilson for his comments amid Jabbar's suspected ties to ISIS.
Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of the conservative magazine The Federalist, suggested it's time to cancel Allstate's insurance plans.
Sports commentator Jon Root railed against Wilson and mocked his comments.
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Injury lawyer Adam Loewy not only criticized Wilson's statement, he called out Allstate as a company in response to the controversy.
Some small social media users have voiced their grievances and plans to cancel their insurance plans in response to Wilson.
“What was Allstate thinking about that statement (?) I just canceled my policy and signed up with State Farm,” one user wrote.
“That Allstate was sad a business about a terrorist attack is exactly what I needed to know not to give them my business,” another wrote.
And one user even called the trade “The worst, most inconsistent of the college football season.”
Jabbare's brother said the New York Times that he and his ex-Army brother were raised Christian in Beaumont, Texas, before the late attacker converted to Islam as an adult.
“What he did does not represent Islam,” said the younger brother. “This is a form of radicalization, not a religion.”
Retired FBI agents Scott Duffey and Chris Swecker he told Fox News Digital that Wednesday's attack could strengthen ISIS, other terrorist groups or defectors.
“This is a time when ISIS is under extreme pressure and their presence is threatened in Syria and elsewhere. It would make sense for them to double their message to empower the Americans to implement and deploy in any cells they have in place,” Swecker said.
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Days before the attack, the pro-ISIS base called Muslims who live in the US, Europe and Russia to carry out attacks on New Year's Eve.
“O people who believe in one God in Europe, America, Russia and other countries of the Warriors, we know that you long to join your brothers in the land of Jihad, but the roads are cut off for you,” the translated version of the post read. on Sunday. “Warriors among you, their safety is extended, and your brothers are killed.
“The time has come to take out the swords from their sheaths and cut the muscles of the horses in their places that Allah loves and is pleased with,” the post continued. “They prepare for the feast of their many gods, so turn their feast into mourning, their joy into calamity.”
The publication asked Muslims, or “Religious Fighters,” if they felt safe in their homes as their brothers and sisters were in detention centers and camps before calling them “repeating their attacks and to repeat the days of those who went before you in this way.”
The attack in New Orleans comes nearly two weeks after the suspect a terrorist attack Christmas market in Germany.
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