Queens Councilmember Vickie Paladino faces backlash after controversial post

NEW YORK (PIX11) — A Queens city councilmember has sparked some serious backlash after a controversial post on social media.

Vickie Paladino has since deleted what some are calling anti-muslim hate following the recent terror attack in Australia that killed 15 and injured 40 others.

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Authorities said two Muslim gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday.

“We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we can’t ignore it,” Paladino said in the deleted post. “We need to take very seriously the need to begin the expulsion of Muslims from Western nations, or at the very least the severe sanction of them within Western borders.”…

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