Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Biden Rescinds Trump’s 'Muslim Travel Ban' as 'Inconsistent with American Values'
Frontpagemagazine ^ | Jan 21, 2021 | Raymond Ibrahim

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.


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 next last
To: SJackson

Terrorism is now “Biden’s Fault!”


21 posted on 01/21/2021 7:05:47 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Allegations of vote fraud cause you to 1)Provide contrary evidence or 2)Censor and erect razor wire)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

It is not a Muslim ban.


22 posted on 01/21/2021 7:06:45 AM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

Ok...did the Pervert criminal REALLY sit at the DESK with a mask on? President Trump did not ever do that, did he?


23 posted on 01/21/2021 7:06:53 AM PST by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Joe 6-pack

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.


24 posted on 01/21/2021 7:07:04 AM PST by allwrong57
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

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.


25 posted on 01/21/2021 7:07:44 AM PST by Wuli
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: goodnesswins

Yes, he thinks social distancing is 60 feet. Or he’s becoming a modern day Howard Hughes. Or maybe Michael Jackson. Without the talent.


26 posted on 01/21/2021 7:09:26 AM PST by SJackson (If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun...folks in Philly like a good brawl, BH Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: lowbridge

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.


27 posted on 01/21/2021 7:10:58 AM PST by SJackson (If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun...folks in Philly like a good brawl, BH Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Candor7
President Trump banned travel from these countries because each one did not have any infrastructure that would screen those who were violent, criminals or jihadis . all of whom would hurt Americans if they came here.

Just a detail. In Joe's mind they're just tourists. Or students. Yoots are harmless. Ask Europe.

28 posted on 01/21/2021 7:13:24 AM PST by SJackson (If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun...folks in Philly like a good brawl, BH Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

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?


29 posted on 01/21/2021 7:13:47 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

American “terrorists” bad, Middle East terrorists good.


30 posted on 01/21/2021 7:14:34 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

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.


31 posted on 01/21/2021 7:18:32 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

Few things are more dangerous than propagandists who believe their own propaganda.


32 posted on 01/21/2021 7:20:47 AM PST by davius (Kapo Schwartz Gyorgy as Ceausescu)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

911 v.2


33 posted on 01/21/2021 7:23:30 AM PST by bgill (."Salute the Marines")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

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.


34 posted on 01/21/2021 7:24:04 AM PST by euram
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

Maybe he has forgotten about the Boston Marathon bombings and how they were carried out by mooslem immigrants.


35 posted on 01/21/2021 7:49:42 AM PST by DownInFlames (Ga)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

MOSLEMS are inconsistent with American values!


36 posted on 01/21/2021 8:07:07 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

Let the terrorists in! Great times ahead for the good ol’ USA.


37 posted on 01/21/2021 8:19:57 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJackson
Waiting for the standard "judge issues nationwide injunction on one President canceling the EO of a prior President" in 3...2...1... what? Nothing? Wait, when did that stop happeing? Oh, yesterday. Right.

But there is no such thing as an "Obama judge", right John Roberts?

38 posted on 01/21/2021 8:21:32 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

China Joe and the libturd cabal is inconsistent with American values


39 posted on 01/21/2021 8:23:17 AM PST by drypowder
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SJackson

Biden’s brain is so dead it won’t even trigger the line on a scope.


40 posted on 01/21/2021 8:48:54 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson