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DUP MP Sammy Wilson has said that he agrees with a mural equating Sinn Fein with ISIS.

Mr Wilson was responding to a question posed to him by the Public Broadcasting Service, a US broadcaster.

In a news piece entitled ‘Brexit stirs up old divides in Northern Ireland’, the presenter asked Mr Wilson his views on a loyalist mural depicting IRA attacks that also featured a comparison with ISIS, Sinn Fein and the IRA.

Accompanied by pictures of the 2015 Paris attacks, it read: “ISIS Terrorists wantonly slaughtered 130 innocent people during a series of coordinated merciless terror attacks in Paris on Friday 13th November 2015.

“IRA - Sinn Fein - ISIS no difference”.

When asked if he agreed, Mr Wilson said that there “has always been an affiliation between the Irish republicans and terrorist groups, especially in the Middle East”.

The presenter then asked: "Do you agree with that placard equating Sinn Fein with ISIS?"

He replied: “Yes I do.”