Opuscula Trump doesn’t Ban Muslims From America

IF PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTED TO BAN MUSLIMS from entering the U.S., his executive order would have listed 52 Muslim-dominated countries and not just six. (See table at end of blog entry.)

If the president wanted to ban Muslims from nations whose citizens have financed or committed acts of terrorism on U.S. citizens, he should focus on

Saudi Arabia (financing terror)

Morocco (pilots of 9-11 planes))

in addition to the counties he specified in the executive order.

The media and the leftists are wringing their hands, “woe is me’ing,” and hitting the streets with signs claiming that the president is banning ALL Muslims from entering the U.S.

As with most things that aggravate the leftists, this is a half truth — indeed, only 6/52nds of the truth. Of the 52 – fifty-two — Muslim majority countries around the globe, only 6 — six — are mentioned in the executive order. Let’s see:52 minus 6 = 46
Muslim-dominated countries whose citizens are NOT banned from entering the U.S.

And that doesn’t include other countries where Muslims make up a sizeable percentage of the population — including Israel where Muslims make up more than 14% of the total population.

Obviously — for anyone who can, and is willing, to think and do minimal research — Trump’s executive order is NOT about Muslims; it is about all citizens of only six — count’em, 6: Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen — countries that are famous for terrorism.

It IS interesting that Trump failed to ban immigrants from Morocco and Saudi Arabia, the latter if anyone remembers the photo, the place where the ex-president groveled before the nation’s king. He also might have considered banning residents of “Palestine” since they have an ongoing record of murdering civilians — including the elderly and infants — for the terrible crime of living in, or just visiting, Israel.

Aljazeera , under a headline reading Trump signs new 'Muslim ban' on six countries reminds that Under the Republican president's order announced on Monday, a 90-day ban on travel to the US will be imposed on citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen.

Aljazeera also notes that travelers holding valid visas issued prior to the order and green card holders will be allowed into the U.S.

THE MISSING LINK

The U.S. has a notoriously weak vetting process, and an equally weak visa and passport check process (albeit the passport checks are getting better). Any terrorist with designs on disrupting life in the U.S. and a few Saudi Arabian riyals can buy phony documents — a passport from an allowed country and, if necessary, a visa — from expert forgers. Getting on a U.S.-bound aircraft with that phony ID avoids any inconvenience of a “no fly” restriction.

During the ex-president’s lame duck days he promised to tighten vetting of people from more than six Muslim-dominated countries and, indeed, banned immigration and visitors from those countries for — not 90 days — six months. The vetting process was jobbed out to civilian contractors for initial investigation, then to the State Department for a cursory check. This was the “strict” vetting process under the previous administration.

The leftists and some Muslims in America contend that Trump’s 90-day ban — conveniently ignoring the ex-president’s 6 month ban — will cause Muslims to hate America. If that is so, why are so many Muslims trying to come to the U.S.? Is it because the Muslim-dominated countries they want to leave lack personal freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. (even for illegal aliens).

Certainly not all Muslims are terrorists or even potential terrorists; as with all peoples, there are good and bad.

Closing U.S. borders to specific people has a history going back to the 1882.

A compromise that surely will NOT please the leftists is to intern citizens of selected countries — currently just six — in special camps as the Democrat’s FDR did to Japanese-Americans, German-Americans, and Italian-Americans and as several presidents did to American aborigines (sending them to “reservations”).

According to The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, “Arkansas played a part in the international drama of 1980, when 125,000 Cubans left their homeland for a new life in the United States. Roughly 25,000 of these Cuban refugees—called Marielitos because they had departed Cuba from the port of Mariel—were housed for a time at Fort Chaffee in Sebastian County. Their presence in Arkansas created social and political tension widely thought to have had an impact on the Arkansas governor’s race of 1980.”

Overall, of the roughly 125,000 Cubans who entered the United States in the 1980 boatlift, 103,000 were released into American society relatively quickly. Those detained for a longer time included 1,200 suspected of serious crimes in Cuba and 600 diagnosed as severely mentally ill; the rest were suspected only of political crimes in Cuba or other minor offenses. Over time, ninety-eight percent of the Marielitos joined the United States population. Most live in south Florida or in New York City or northern New Jersey. Few, if any, of the Marielitos chose to live in northwest Arkansas.

The move was not a happy one for the citizens of Arkansas.

No one argues that the U.S. is what it is today because of immigrants — legal immigrants — and most thinking American’s are willing to accommodate legal immigrants regardless of race, religion, or any other descriptive.

However, there IS precedence for banning entry into the U.S. not only from countries — e.g., Trump’s six-nation ban — but specific races (regardless of religion). (See Closing U.S. borders paragraph, above.)

Specifically refugees.

Democrat FDR refused entry of slightly less than 1000 Jews escaping Hitler’s death squads because there might be a nazi spy in the group. The boat, the Saint Louis, returned to Germany where many of the passengers were murdered.

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The following table is excerpted from Islam by country.

#	Country/Region[1]	Muslim percentage (%) of total population
1	Afghanistan	99.8
2	Albania	58.8[27]
3	Algeria	98.2 [1] - >99[28]
4	Azerbaijan	98.4
5	Bahrain	70.2[31]
6	Bangladesh	86.3[32]
7	Bosnia-Herzegovina	50.7[35]
8	Brunei	67[36]
9	Burkina Faso	60.5[38]
10	Chad	58[28]
11	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	80[48]
12	Comoros	98.3
13	Djibouti	97
14	Egypt	90[50]
15	Guinea	84.2
16	Guinea Bissau	50[56]
17	Indonesia	87.2[60]
18	Iran	99.7
19	Iraq	98.9
20	Jordan	93.8
21	Kazakhstan	70.2 (official census)[64]
22	Kosovo	95.6
23	Kuwait	74.1[67]
24	Kyrgyzstan	88.8
25	Lebanon	59.7
26	Libya	96.6
27	Malaysia	61.4
28	Maldives	100
29	Mali	95[28]
30	Mauritania	100[70]
31	Mayotte	98.8
32	Morocco	99[74]
33	Niger	98.3[76]
34	Oman	87.7
35	Pakistan	96.4
36	Qatar	77.5
37	Saudi Arabia	97.1
38	Senegal	95.9
39	Sierra Leone	71.5
40	Somalia	98.9[85][86][87][88]
41	Palestinian Territories	97.5
42	Sudan	97.0[92]
43	Syria	90
44	Tajikistan	99
45	Gambia	95.3
46	Tunisia	99.8
47	Turkey	98.6
48	Turkmenistan	93.3
49	United Arab Emirates	76
50	Uzbekistan	96.5
51	Western Sahara	99.6
52	Yemen	99
	Central Asia	80
	South Asia	31.4[105][106]
	Southeast-East Asia	12
	MENA	91.2
	Sub-Saharan Africa	29.6
	Europe	6
	Americas	0.6
	World Total	23.4

Numbers to the right of the percentage refer to notes on table on the web.

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