Donald Trump’s travel ban makes sense -
Feb 2, 2017 18:27:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 18:27:51 GMT
Thought a view from the other side might be interesting.
THE BOTTOM LINE
As a Muslim and naturalized American, I believe this is a bold geopolitical decision. In the age of Islamism, these bans are pragmatic and presidential.
Critics of President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration have called it a “Muslim ban,” quoting his campaign rhetoric. But as a Muslim and naturalized American, I believe this is a bold geopolitical decision. In the age of Islamism, these bans are pragmatic and presidential.
The seven affected countries represent 12.5 percent of all Muslim-majority states, a mere 8.2 percent of the world’s Muslims. Because we Muslims make our homes in more than 183 nations around the world, these orders are neither global nor anti-Muslim. The executive order targets lands fertile for Islamism: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.
Violent Islamism thrives within expanding vacuums formed under weak governments. Unchallenged, within such vacuums, failed states are filled with extremism. Tragically, each of the seven countries has become at once victim, safe haven, patron and incubator of violent Islamism.
Islamism thrives in chaos. In the wake of the last decade defined by the Obama presidencies, chaos stretches from the eastern Mediterranean to North Africa. A devastated Iraq that we exited too hastily, when it was unable to govern itself, is destabilized by the Islamic State. In Yemen, an unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by Saudi Arabia’s operation against the Houthis (precipitated by President Barack Obama’s agreement with Iran and his shunning of the Saudi superpower) is magnified by starvation. Libya, a state crippled by infighting of competing Islamist governments, is powerless as ISIS expands its third front on the shores of the Mediterranean. And despite 25 years of foreign aid, Somalia remains just as destabilized by the jihadist group al-Shabab as by conflicts between brutal warlords.
From such vacuums flow migrants and refugees. Legitimate fears of destabilization concern even the most powerful of nations, as we witness massive influxes in Germany and Canada.
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THE BOTTOM LINE
As a Muslim and naturalized American, I believe this is a bold geopolitical decision. In the age of Islamism, these bans are pragmatic and presidential.
Critics of President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration have called it a “Muslim ban,” quoting his campaign rhetoric. But as a Muslim and naturalized American, I believe this is a bold geopolitical decision. In the age of Islamism, these bans are pragmatic and presidential.
The seven affected countries represent 12.5 percent of all Muslim-majority states, a mere 8.2 percent of the world’s Muslims. Because we Muslims make our homes in more than 183 nations around the world, these orders are neither global nor anti-Muslim. The executive order targets lands fertile for Islamism: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.
Violent Islamism thrives within expanding vacuums formed under weak governments. Unchallenged, within such vacuums, failed states are filled with extremism. Tragically, each of the seven countries has become at once victim, safe haven, patron and incubator of violent Islamism.
Islamism thrives in chaos. In the wake of the last decade defined by the Obama presidencies, chaos stretches from the eastern Mediterranean to North Africa. A devastated Iraq that we exited too hastily, when it was unable to govern itself, is destabilized by the Islamic State. In Yemen, an unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by Saudi Arabia’s operation against the Houthis (precipitated by President Barack Obama’s agreement with Iran and his shunning of the Saudi superpower) is magnified by starvation. Libya, a state crippled by infighting of competing Islamist governments, is powerless as ISIS expands its third front on the shores of the Mediterranean. And despite 25 years of foreign aid, Somalia remains just as destabilized by the jihadist group al-Shabab as by conflicts between brutal warlords.
From such vacuums flow migrants and refugees. Legitimate fears of destabilization concern even the most powerful of nations, as we witness massive influxes in Germany and Canada.
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