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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumps travel ban isnt about making America safe. Its about kicking Muslims around.
President Trumps refugee ban and travel restrictions are a disgraceful exercise in cruelty. They do nothing to make us safer and may, in fact, make us less safe but they punish Muslims, and that is his whole point.
Fear and loathing of Islam was one of Trumps campaign themes. He appealed to those who wrongly see the fight against terrorism as a clash of civilizations between Christian and Muslim worlds and see Muslim immigrants as a kind of fifth column intent on destroying America from within.
During the campaign, Trump called for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our countrys representatives can figure out what is going on. He later modified this position into a call for extreme vetting of Muslim immigrants, including Syrian refugees. But he continued to cite a discredited survey, conducted by a stridently anti-Muslim group, purporting to show that many Muslims in this country support global jihad and the replacement of our legal system with Islamic sharia law.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-travel-ban-prioritizes-cruelty-over-safety/2017/01/30/4afe1848-e718-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.43fa5012f9c8
Fear and loathing of Islam was one of Trumps campaign themes. He appealed to those who wrongly see the fight against terrorism as a clash of civilizations between Christian and Muslim worlds and see Muslim immigrants as a kind of fifth column intent on destroying America from within.
During the campaign, Trump called for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our countrys representatives can figure out what is going on. He later modified this position into a call for extreme vetting of Muslim immigrants, including Syrian refugees. But he continued to cite a discredited survey, conducted by a stridently anti-Muslim group, purporting to show that many Muslims in this country support global jihad and the replacement of our legal system with Islamic sharia law.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-travel-ban-prioritizes-cruelty-over-safety/2017/01/30/4afe1848-e718-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.43fa5012f9c8
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Trumps travel ban isnt about making America safe. Its about kicking Muslims around. (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Jan 2017
OP
get the red out
(13,466 posts)1. Blood for his base
Throwing red meat to the wolf pack that voted for him.
raccoon
(31,111 posts)2. Wish I could rec your post. nt
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)3. You beat me to it.
I was going to say throwing red meat to the dogs. I was thinking "wolves" was too kind a characterization for his followers.
get the red out
(13,466 posts)4. I love dogs
And wild animals are desperate to feed, like Trump voters.
Dulcinea
(6,638 posts)5. Those brown people who don't look or talk like them...
...just make them so uncomfortable.