@zenvelo I’m not arguing whether it is or isn’t. I’m saying the administration has said all along it isn’t a Muslim ban, but that it is a travel ban from those countries. It seems stupid to try to say it isn’t a travel ban.
As far as whether it’s a Muslim ban, we’ll, Muslims are still coming in from plenty of other countries. Letting in Christians who possibly have their lives more in danger isn’t necessarily much different than letting in other people who seek asylum for religious persecution. That is legal. We can favor a religion for entry if they are targeted. I realize from these countries Muslims are also in danger.
I’m against the ban as I’ve said, but I do see how some would see some logic with giving the Christians priority. I have said for years that we should be helping the Christians get out of some of these countries. Their churches are being taken over and desecrated. Their bibles from hundreds of years ago have been destroyed. They have their lives threatened. They are a minority population in a crazy theocracy in a lot if these countries. I wish I could take in ten Syrian families, I don’t care what religion they are. South Sudan isn’t on the list I don’t think, but one of our reporters (who by the way is just a total pleasure to converse with. Many of the African reporters have a disposition and sweetness that is truly remarkable) I couldn’t pay him, I paid his wife in Uganda instead. I think she went there to be in a safer place. It breaks my heart.
I think Trump’s thinking, which I think is flawed, is we are less likely to import a terrorists if they are Christian. It doesn’t have to be interpreted as a Muslim ban, just a paranoid ban.