Fears That Trump’s Visa Ban Betrays Friends and Bolsters Enemies
Each time in the past that we targeted groups of people for different treatment in this country it’s become an evil blot in our history. When we used genocide against native Americans, when we enslaved blacks, when we interned the Japanese, were collective national actions of enduring and indelible shame. This executive order is essentially Unamerican, it’s counter to our constitution, counter to our culture, and clearly demonstrates why Trump should not be president.
“I think this is going to alienate the whole Muslim world,” said Mouwafak al-Rubaie, a lawmaker and former Iraqi national security adviser in Iraq.
“Terrorists can say, ‘See, their aim is not terror but Muslims,’ ” said Ilter Turan, a professor of international relations at Bilgi University in Istanbul.
For years, American policy in much of the Muslim world has been an exercise in pragmatism, framed by a transactional ethos and the bloodshed of several wars.
Yet even as President George W. Bush and then President Barack Obama launched military action or covert strikes, they publicly stressed their commitment to religious tolerance, and that there was no American war on Islam.
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