Bully forbids entry to US from 12 countries

The bully has forbidden (with narrow exceptions) entry into the US of the nationals of 12 countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

Referring to this as a "Muslim ban" is false. According to Wikipedia, four of the countries — Burma, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti and Republic of the Congo — have few Muslims (those in Burma are a persecuted minority, the Rohingya). Eritrea is more or less evenly divided between Christians and Muslims.

Meanwhile, many mainly Muslim countries are not covered by the ban. These include Albania, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Syria, and Turkey, and some more.

It seems clear that the motives for the ban are political, not racial or religious.

I don't see a sensible reason for the ban. The US has quarrels with some of these countries, but not all. And it is perverse to deny a person asylum because of something bad about the country perse is fleeing from.

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