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.
Inconsistent with American values, such as death wish, idiocy, and being taken for a rube because you are one.
Biden Rescinds Trump’s ‘Muslim Travel Ban’ as ‘Inconsistent with American Values’
It’s not appeasement towards enemies, its being one with them.
When will Conservatives wake up to the fact that leftists are traitorous enemies to our Constitution and are dedicated to our destruction as a nation, while extracting as much wealth from us as possible.
This is not a matter of wrong, destructive ideology, this is war.
When will Conservatives wake up to the fact that leftists are traitorous enemies to our Constitution>>>>>>>>>>>>>
When we stop them from feeding at the Dem established pork trough that buys them off. Thats why the GOPe did not like Trump, he was taking away their usual feeding trough. Mitch McConnell is one of these creatures.
All we need is another Trump presidency, or a president who will not submit completely to the feeding trough.
Which one of these idiotic Joementia EO’s are being implemented to benefit the average American Citizen?
Buellar, Buellar...
Bring in terrorists, open the borders, defund the police, put more Americans out of work and jack up fuel prices.
Yep, dims are back in control.
Biden: exactly. How else will the Middle Kingdom regain its rightful place?
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