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"The executive order… is tantamount to a Muslim ban" isn't quite true. Islam by country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country https://en.wikipedia.or
by mcenedella 10y ago
"The executive order… is tantamount to a Muslim ban" isn't quite true.
Islam by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country
1. Indonesia
2. Pakistan
3. India
4. Bangladesh
5. Nigeria
6. Iran
7. Turkey
8. Egypt
9. Algeria
10. Sudan
It's probably not a great tactic to perpetuate the American habit for making sweeping comments about the rest of the world which aren't really grounded in truth. Might be best to be scrupulously fact-based on these matters.
- Gargoyle 10y agoIt's impossible to talk about politics in a non-hyperbolic way right now, so I've mostly just stopped. I'm not going to stop voting, but I'm going to stop trying to discuss anything, which means I will be much harder to persuade.
- nthitz 10y agoThe only people the ban will affect will be Muslim people though.
- mars4rp 10y agoThat is not true! My non muslim, citizen brother can't bring in her fiance from Italy because she is Iranian !
- refurb 10y agoUh.... no? This ban also prevents any Christians living in those countries from coming to the US as well.
- jannotti 10y agoThat's not what Trump says. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-approves-extreme-vetting-of-refugees-promises-priority-for-christians/2017/01/27/007021a2-e4c7-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump...
- refurb 10y agoRead the headline. "Trump promises". Christians from those countries are currently banned from entering the US. In fact, all citizens of those countries are banned, regardless of their religion (unless they have a US passport).
- PaulHoule 10y agoTrump's list of countries has been on Captain America's ultimate shitlist for a long time. During and after the Vietnam war the U.S. took in a vast number of refugees from Southeast Asia, something remarkable about the Iraq war is that we have taken a handful of handful of Iraqis in during that time.
- mjmsmith 10y agoThat's true, it doesn't apply to countries that Trump does business with, including the one that produced most of the 9/11 hijackers.
- dragonwriter 10y agoIt actually doesn't include any of the countries the 9/11 terrorists came from.
- adamrezich 10y agoI keep seeing people repeating this meme everywhere, but I've yet to figure out why it's actually relevant. 9/11 was sixteen years ago.
- t_20170128 10y agoBecause the EO specifically cites 9/11 and terrorist attacks as justification for this ban.
- mjmsmith 10y agoThe Iranian Revolution was 37 years ago. What's your point?
- sangnoir 10y ago> I keep seeing people repeating this meme everywhere, but I've yet to figure out why it's actually relevant Maybe because the EO explicitly refers to 9/11 not once, not twice but three times.
- Sgt_Apone 10y agoThe ban itself isn't relevant to it supposed goal. Between 1975 through 2015, 17 foreign-born folks from these nations were convicted of carrying out or attempting to carry out a terrorist attack on U.S. soil and they killed zero people. Zero Libyans or Syrians intended to carry out an attack on U.S. soil during this time.[1] It's all bullshit. [1] - https://www.cato.org/blog/guide-trumps-executive-order-limit-migration-national-security-reasons https://www.cato.org/blog/guide-trumps-executive-order-limit...