Friday, May 26, 2017

US Travel Ban and Muslim despots

This is the opinion of a largely conservative court: "U.S. Chief Circuit Judge Roger Gregory wrote that the text of Trump’s executive order, which was challenged in courts across the country for targeting members of a particular faith, “speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination.”"  Yet, just last week, in the wake of Trump's visit, the secretary-general of the Muslim League said that all statements and decisions by Trump were not directed against Islam or Muslims but against extremists.