Posted on 01/21/2021 6:52:15 AM PST by SJackson
Even as most of the nations on that list have just appeared on another more troubling list.
No sooner did Joseph Biden enter the White House on January 20, 20201, before he began rescinding some of his predecessor’s strong immigration policies.
In early 2017, for example, Trump issued travel restrictions into the U.S. from various nations. They are currently eight: Chad, Iran, Somalia, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. Although North Korea and Venezuela have nothing to do with Islam, in an effort to present Trump’s policy as “Islamophobic,” then and now his enemies refer to it as a “Muslim Ban.” Or, in the words of the Biden White House, it was “rooted in religious animus and xenophobia.”
In reality, Trump banned entry from those eight nations because they were all to various degrees either state sponsors of terrorism and/or posed a serious security threat to the U.S; most or all of them regularly appear on the State Department’s list of “countries of particular concern,” while others are known state sponsors of terrorism.
Interestingly, and perhaps even more tellingly, most of these eight nations appeared on another list just a few days ago. On January, 18, 2021, Open Doors, an international human rights organization that annually ranks the 50 worst nations that persecute Christians, published its latest findings. Six of the eight nations affected by Trump’s so-called “Muslim ban”—that is, 75 percent of them—are on this list.
North Korea (#1) is the worst: “Being discovered as a Christian is a death sentence.” The other nations—Somalia (#3), Libya (#4), Yemen (#7), Iran (#8), Syria (#12)—are not much better. As with North Korea, they too, as part of the absolute worst 12, are all categorized as nations where “extreme persecution” occurs.
For the record, Open Doors, which compiled this list, is critical of Trump, i.e., its findings are not politically motivated.
Of course, you may not be nor care much about what happens to Christians; even so, rest assured that these aforementioned nations that persecute Christians do so less because they know or care about Christianity, and more because they simply hate “the other”—that is, you, if you’re not Muslim.
Despite all this, Biden has denounced Trump’s strict travel measures against these eight nations as “inconsistent with American values.” Moreover, and as one of his very first acts, Biden has just issued an order that “instructs the State Department to restart visa processing for affected countries and to swiftly develop a proposal to restore fairness,” as well as to increase “information sharing” with foreign governments and nations.
Only time will tell what the ramifications of this ease on travel restrictions will be.
By the way, and in closing, that six of the eight nations on Trump’s “ban” are Muslim—and that nearly 80 percent of the nations that persecute and maul Christians and other minorities are Islamic—is and always has been less a reflection of “Islamophobia” and more a reflection of why fear of Islam exists in the first place.
Terrorism is now “Biden’s Fault!”
It is not a Muslim ban.
Ok...did the Pervert criminal REALLY sit at the DESK with a mask on? President Trump did not ever do that, did he?
He rescinded Trump’s lifting of the ban from European countries. Therefore, we let travelers from Somalia come in, France and Italy, no.
We all know that Somalia has great covid testing.
I’m sure we’ll test all the border crossers from Guatemala.
The entire Dim narrative on the matter of Trump’s immigration sanctions is filled with false claims.
It starts with the “Muslim Ban” claim.
If it were a “Muslim” ban it could not have been directed at a mere small fraction of Muslims in the world.
It was a ban directed at places were there remains unrest generated by Muslim extremist terrorists, with many of the terrorists resident citizens of the places in turmoil. It makes vetting individuals from those places difficult and fraught with risks. Risks we do not need and do not need to take.
Denying that reality is nothing less than cow towing to the claims of the Muslim terrorists, that they are not the problem, the U.S. is the problem.
Yes, he thinks social distancing is 60 feet. Or he’s becoming a modern day Howard Hughes. Or maybe Michael Jackson. Without the talent.
No, can’t happen. They’re just peaceful tourists from Iraq, Iran and Yemen. They want to see our parks. I hope we don’t see those scenes, but this is a victory for terror.
Just a detail. In Joe's mind they're just tourists. Or students. Yoots are harmless. Ask Europe.
Filthy liar. He knows perfectly well that the “Muslim ban” was a restriction on travel from known hotbeds of terrorism.
Between opening the door to unrestricted terrorist travel, giving citizenship to millions of illegal aliens, and stopping any border enforcement, does he have even an iota of care or concern for American citizens?
American “terrorists” bad, Middle East terrorists good.
Just a detail. In Joe’s mind they’re just tourists. Or students. Yoots are harmless. Ask Europe. >>>>>>>>>>
Sure .
But the facts?
They do not support Stealer Joe.
Like the last Saudi in Flight training at Pensacola who was not properly vetted, and he under Saudi military orders, shooting US sailors, while his Saudi co trainees film his butcher work on their I-phones, sending it off immediately.
Joe needs to be stuck in that kind of cross fire. I want to see him sh*t in his Depends.
Few things are more dangerous than propagandists who believe their own propaganda.
911 v.2
I always thought it was a mistake that the Trump administration didn’t continuously point out that under 0bama/Biden that there had been numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, and that these had attacks had stopped under Trump.
Maybe he has forgotten about the Boston Marathon bombings and how they were carried out by mooslem immigrants.
MOSLEMS are inconsistent with American values!
Let the terrorists in! Great times ahead for the good ol’ USA.
But there is no such thing as an "Obama judge", right John Roberts?
China Joe and the libturd cabal is inconsistent with American values
Biden’s brain is so dead it won’t even trigger the line on a scope.
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