An American activist has slammed the US government for supplying militant groups in Syria with weapons, describing the United States as the source of violence around the globe.

“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world is the United States government,” said Dakotah Lilly, from the Organization of Students and Youth for a New America (SYNA).

“The United States has absolutely no problem with arming Wahhabi terrorists in Syria” and it has good relations with extremist groups in the Middle East and North Africa, Lilly told Press TV’s Top 5 on Wednesday.

He also rejected US President Donald Trump's claims that the controversial travel ban on 7 Muslim majority countries was aimed at securing America.

Back in January, the new US president signed an executive order to impose a 90-day entry ban on citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia.

The US administration is using hate crimes as a pretext to blame Muslims for the domestic violence in the country, Lilly reiterated.

US President Donald Trump (C) signs an executive order alongside Defense Secretary James Mattis (R) and Vice President Mike Pence (L) on January 27, 2016 at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. (Photo by AFP)

The propaganda campaign against Muslims led American people to associate Muslims with terrorism, the New York-based activist said, but it is a “fear-mongering” policy which has been embedded in US policies for decades.

“Our mainstream media is very very complicit in keeping Americans in the dark,” the commentator said.

In fact the terrorists in America are “white nationalists” and “Christians” but the American people do not understand that, he argued.

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