1. Debra Burlingame was born on 1954 and is an American lawyer and political activist.
14 Facts About Debra Burlingame
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Debra Burlingame is the sister of Charles "Chic" Burlingame III, the pilot of the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 that was flown into The Pentagon during the September 11 attacks by Al Qaeda terrorists in 2001.
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Debra Burlingame was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and moved frequently as a daughter of an active duty member of the United States Air Force.
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Debra Burlingame spent parts of her childhood in California and England.
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Debra Burlingame is a graduate of New York University and Cardozo School of Law.
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Debra Burlingame inspired blogger Robert Shurbet to start Take Back The Memorial, a nonprofit group that opposed the International Freedom Center being located at the World Trade Center site.
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Debra Burlingame is a columnist, political activist, and board member of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation.
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Debra Burlingame's columns have appeared in the New York Daily News.
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In October 2009, Debra Burlingame co-founded, with Liz Cheney, a non-profit 5014 organization called Keep America Safe.
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Debra Burlingame considers herself to be a critic of radical Islam.
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In 2014, Debra Burlingame made several tweets attacking Islam and Barack Obama, calling the latter a "drug addict" in response to Obama's reaction to Trayvon Martin's death.
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In 2017, Debra Burlingame expressed support for Donald Trump's "Muslim travel ban" that prevented refugees from several Muslim-majority countries to enter the United States.
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Debra Burlingame has been criticized for making controversial and anti-Muslim views which includes stereotyping and generalizing Islam.
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Debra Burlingame stated that the enemy of America is the "Muslim world" and has accused them as being a place where "the enlightenment hasn't even happened yet".