Sugar Bowl’s corporate sponsor CEO slammed for ‘addiction to divisiveness’ statement after terror attack

Allstate CEO Tom Wilson sparked a firestorm of reaction on social media Thursday with a video statement that addressed Wednesday terrorist attack in New Orleans that killed more than a dozen people.

Wilson’s statement came earlier Sugar bowlof which Allstate is the official corporate sponsor, after the game was postponed until Thursday due to the attack. In the video, Wilson suggested that Americans have an “addiction to divisiveness” and need to “accept people’s imperfections and differences.”

“Our prayers go out to the victims and their families. We must also be stronger together by overcoming our addiction to division and negativity. Join Allstate as it works in local communities across America to amplify positivity, increase trust and embrace human imperfections and differences. Together we win,” Wilson says in the video.

Wilson’s words sparked outrage among social media users. The suspect has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar. The FBI is working to determine Jabbar’s “potential affiliation and association with terrorist organizations,” after an ISIS flag was found on the truck.

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Political activist Charlie Kirk has come out against Wilson over his comments amid suspicions that Jabbar is linked to ISIS.

Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of the conservative magazine The Federalist, suggested it’s time to cancel Allstate insurance plans.

Sports content creator Jon Root spoke out against Wilson and mocked his comments.

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Personal injury attorney Adam Loewy not only condemned Wilson’s statement, but called out Allstate as a company in response to the controversy.

Other minor social media users expressed their own grievances and intentions to end their insurance plans in response to Wilson.

“What was Allstate thinking with that statement[?] I just canceled my policy and enrolled in State Farm,” wrote one user.

“That slacker Allstate A commercial about a terrorist attack is exactly what I should have known I wouldn’t give them my business,” wrote another.

And one user even called the ad “The worst, most ill-conceived of the college football season.”

Jabbar’s younger brother he told the New York Times that he and his army veteran brother grew up Christian in Beaumont, Texas, before the now-deceased gunman converted to Islam as an adult.

“What he did does not represent Islam,” said the younger brother. “This is more a kind of radicalization than a religion.”

Retired FBI agents Scott Duffey and Chris Swecker he told Fox News Digital that Wednesday’s attack could embolden ISIS, other terrorist groups or individuals who are radicalized.

“This is a time when ISIS is under great stress and their existence is threatened in Syria and elsewhere. It would make sense for them to double down on their message to radicalize Americans to get them going and activate whatever cells they have in place,” Swecker said.

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A few days before the attack, a pro-ISIS newspaper invited the Muslims who live in the US, Europe and Russia to carry out attacks on New Year’s Eve.

“To the monotheists in Europe, America, Russia and other crusader countries, we know you are eager to join your brothers in the land of jihad, but the roads are cut off for you,” a translated version of the post read. on Sunday. “The Crusaders are among you. Their safety has been extended, and your brothers have been killed.

“The time has come for the swords to be unsheathed and the tendons of the horses to be cut in their places that Allah loves and is pleased with,” the announcement continued. “They are preparing for the feast of their polytheism, so he turns their feast into mourning, and their joy into calamity.”

The media asked Muslims or “crusaders” if they felt safe in their homes while their brothers and sisters were in detention centers and camps before calling on them to “repeat the attack on them and repeat the days of those who preceded you in this journey. “

The New Orleans attack came almost two weeks after the suspect terrorist attack at the Christmas market in Germany.

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