The Muslim Ban Is A Religious Test Built On A False Premise

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January 31, 2017
3:48 PM EST
NINA MAST

After Trump signed an executive order banning refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, his administration and right-wing media allies defended the action as “perfectly legal” and “not a Muslim ban.” Yet mainstream media figures and experts explained that the executive order’s exception for religious minorities renders it a de facto religious test. Trump and his advisers explicitly called for a Muslim ban during the last year of his campaign, and the administration’s claim that the order’s religious exception is necessitated by disproportionate persecution of Christians in the Middle East has been debunked.

Trump Signs Executive Order Restricting US Entry For Refugees From Majority-Muslim Countries, Carving Out An Exception For Religious Minorities

Trump Signed An Executive Order Banning U.S. Entry For Refugees From Majority-Muslim Countries. CNN reported on January 27 that Trump signed an executive order that “limits the flow of … refugees into the United States by instituting what the President has called ‘extreme vetting’ of immigrants.” Drafts obtained by CNN state that the order "bars all persons from certain ‘terror-prone’ countries” -- Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia -- “from entering the United States for 90 days and suspends the US Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days until it is reinstated ‘only for nationals of countries for whom’ members of Trump's Cabinet deem can be properly vetted.” [CNN.com, 1/27/17]

Trump And His Allies Have Explicitly Stated That Their Goal Was A Muslim Ban

Trump’s December 2015 Press Release Explicitly Called For A Muslim Ban. Trump first explicitly called for a Muslim ban in a December 7, 2015, press release that stated, “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.” That statement remained live on Trump’s official website for the rest of his campaign on a page that is still active as of January 31, 2017.

http://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/01/31/muslim-ban-religious-test-built-false-premise/215192

[Angry Dragon]

1. I am more afraid of the radical christian terrorists

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2. I am not afraid, but repulsed, whenever broad brushes are employed.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Of who do you speak??

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4. Anyone who routinely lumps people together, indiscriminately.

Whether that group be Muslims, Christians, atheists, or any other group.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Thanks for the answer

However it is hard to tell a christian from a Christian when they all call themselves c/Christians

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6. Frankly, I find it easier to simply divide the world into assholes and non-assholes.

That's usually an individual determination.

[guillaumeb]

7. That does make it somewhat simpler.

And avoids such words as faith and belief.