U.S. officials say American Muslims do report extremist threats

[Igel]

6. Yup.

Numerous members of Mateen's mosque, including his father and ex-wife, reported him.

People can't speak clearly on either side. Trump mouths off routinely, so I have low expectations for him. But to reduce both sides to poor use of grammar in order to distort and mislead, that's just wrong.

However, in this case in particular it's particularly bad because unless you can show nobody knew Mateen was a possible risk and had gone over to the dark side of the force, then his ex-wife, father, mosque members, friends in "the community" failed to report him.

Muslim Americans report such things. Muslim Americans don't report such things.

Both are true statements and don't contradict each other. Both are false statements and do contradict each other. Because each is ambiguous and has at least two readings.

"Frequently Muslim Americans report such things. However, all too often Muslim Americans don't report such things." That's one way of reading the two statements, back to back. No contradiction.

"It's true that all Muslim Americans to report such things. It's true that no Muslim Americans reports such things." Nice contradiction there. And it's just as valid a reading, if we ignore context and likely speaker intent. In other words, if we show ill will and uncooperativeness in communication.