‘Not in my daughter’s name’: mother of slain backpacker attacks Trump
Sydney — The mother of a backpacker stabbed to death in Australia has slammed Donald Trump for including the death on a list of supposedly under-reported terrorist attacks, claiming the president was using her daughter to demonise Muslims. The US leader this week accused "dishonest" media of purposefully failing to report on attacks by radical jihadists, for which he provided no evidence, in the wake of his contentious travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority nations. The White House distributed a list of 78 incidents it said were "executed or inspired by" Islamic State, saying most "have not received the media attention they deserved". Five Australian attacks were on the list, including a cafe siege in Sydney in 2014 that received global headlines and the stabbing deaths of British backpackers Mia Ayliffe-Chung, 21, and Tom Jackson, 30, last year. AFP filed five stories on the backpacker killings, which were also widely covered by the British press and other media in Austral...
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