As is well known, the Trump Administration in 2017 banned entry to visitors from seven countries. These included Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, North Korea, and Venezuela. This was promptly attacked — and has been attacked ever since — as a “Muslim ban,” an example of Trump’s cruel “Islamophobia.” The administration patiently explained that the reason for the ban was that the governments of those countries were unable to provided sufficient information on their own nationals, who thus posed a security risk to the United States. This argument convinced the Supreme Court in Hawaii v. Trump (2018) to uphold ban as constitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts concluded the language of 8 U. S. C. §1182(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act was clear in giving the President broad authority to suspend the entry of non-citizens into the country and Trump’s Presidential Proclamation 9645 did not exceed any textual limit on the President’s authority. Under 8 U. S. C. §1182(f), a President may limit alien entry when he finds that their entry “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”
Trump determined that aliens from some countries are detrimental because those countries do not share adequate information with the U.S. for an informed decision on entry, and that other countries are detrimental because their aliens create national security risks. Trump showed that the limits he put in place were tailored to protect American interests. The only prerequisite set forth in §1182(f) is that the President “find” that the entry of the covered aliens would be detrimental to the interests of the U.S. “The President has undoubtedly fulfilled that requirement here,” the Supreme Court ruled. Trump acted within his powers, according to Roberts.
Justice Roberts pointed out that even though five of the seven nations on the list have a Muslim majority, that fact alone “does not support an inference of religious hostility, given that the policy covers just 8% [other analysts give figures of 5%-7%] of the world’s Muslim population and is limited to countries that were previously designated by Congress or prior administrations as posing national security risks.” Additionally, Roberts said, three [sic for “two”] Muslim-majority countries have since been dropped from original travel ban – Iraq and Sudan. Similarly, there are waiver exemptions such as medical that people from banned nations are eligible for. In conclusion, Roberts says the White House had shown a “sufficient national security justification.”
None of this has mattered to those who continue to describe this national-security measure as a “Muslim ban.” Linda Sarsour, Ilhan Omar, the entire staff of CAIR, Rachel Maddow, Bernie Sanders, and millions of others refuse to consider the evidence that persuaded the Supreme Court. They have been unable to explain why, if it is a “Muslim” ban, two of the five countries on the list are non-Muslim, and more tellingly, why only 5%-7% of the world’s Muslims are affected in any way by the ban, and why two Muslim countries were early on dropped from the list, once the American government was persuaded that these countries were supplying adequate information about their nationals.
In January of this year, the Trump Administration added six more countries to the list: Nigeria, Eritrea, Sudan, Tanzania, Myanmar, and Kyrgyzstan, whose nationals were to be severely restricted in their entry to the U.S. Every account in the mainstream describes these six nations as “predominately Muslim.” But that isn’t true. Both Nigeria and Eritrea are 50% Muslim. Tanzania is 36% Muslim, Myanmar is 2.3% Muslim. In other words, only two of the six nation added last January to the so-called “Muslim ban” list can be described as “predominately Muslim.” Let these facts be submitted to a candid world.
And now comes the U.A.E., with the news that it, too, is instituting a “Muslim ban” of its own, one that is more far-reaching than the American ban. The story is here: “Report: UAE halts new visas to citizens of 13 Muslim-majority states,” Israel Hayom, November 25, 2020:
It said applications for new employment and visit visas had been suspended for nationals, who are outside the UAE, of the 13 countries, including Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen, until further notice.
The visa ban also applies to citizens of Algeria, Kenya, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Tunisia and Turkey, the document says….
A source briefed on the matter told Reuters the UAE had temporarily stopped issuing new visas to Afghans, Pakistanis and citizens of several other countries over security concerns.
Last week, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said the UAE had stopped processing new visas for its citizens and those of some other countries.
It said it was seeking information from the UAE on the reason for the suspension but that it thought it was related to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
No, it is not the pandemic, as the Pakistanis suggest, that is the main reason for this UAE ban on visas for nationals of 13 countries, but rather, as one source told Reuters, “security concerns.” What are those concerns? The UAE wants very much to become an attractive destination for Israeli tourists, and any attack on Israelis visiting the UAE for business or pleasure would harm, or even conceivably ruin, such plans. Halting new visas to all these Muslims is one way to limit the threat. There is another, related worry. Muslims in the countries included in the new ban might wish to attack Emirati targets, as a way to punish the country for having normalized ties with Israel. The UAE has decided to minimize the threat.
That’s why the UAE now has an honest-to-goodness Muslim ban. The thirteen countries covered by it are Iran, Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Algeria, Kenya, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Tunisia and Turkey. All but one of these countries — Kenya — is a predominantly Muslim land. What can those who continue to denounce, as a “Muslim ban,” the Trump administration’s ban on visitors from countries that provide insufficient information about their citizens, now say about the UAE’s ban?
Doesn’t this latest decision by the UAE qualify as the real Muslim ban? Trump banned visitors from 13 countries, only seven of which are majority Muslim; the UAE has banned visitors from 13 countries, 12 of which are Muslim. How amusing it is that three members of the Squad — Linda Sarsour, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib — and others of that ilk, who are usually so voluble, have nothing to say about the UAE’s “Muslim ban,” and are tellingly silent.
mortimer says
Oh, the horrible, deplorable, extreme-right-wing Islamophobes of the United Arab Emirates! They should be banned from Twitter and Facebook as their punishment for placing Islamic terrorists on their no-fly list.
Gabriel J Pollux says
You nailed it!
Oh yeah
Some muzlims like iLham Omar, Linda Sarsour and Tlaib are still silent on UAE’s muzlim ban. How fuccking shameless they are!
Eva says
I wish britain would do the same. And extend it, so NO moslems are allowed to enter this country.
Oh, for a government with with some b*lls and integrity!!!
JIMJFOX says
Britain is the prime example of toadying to Islam. I can think of no politician in Britainistan who is in possession of even tiny testicles…
Infidel says
All the countries that the UAE has banned should also be there in the US travel ban list. Of course, if Biden prevails, I don’t anticipate the list remaining in the first place. Or they might substitute those countries w/ ones like Israel, Brazil, Taiwan, for starters
Infidel says
On a lighter note, I think Kenya is in that list b’cos it gave the world Barack Hussein Obama ?
somehistory says
I immediately thought of him…though thoughts of him disgust me no end…when I saw Kenya on the list. Probably more like him in that nation…troublemaking lying pretender, ugly inside and out.
Pal says
“Infidel”, you are a Russian troll!
Infidel says
Right, b’cos every American who supports the president or opposes Biden is a Russian troll!
Adam Schiff, I don’t think you should be moonlighting here as a poster!
Keith O says
Pal, one word to describe you, IDIOT.
But I have to ask, were your parents related by birth?
gravenimage says
What are you on about, Pal?
Del says
President Trump’s no-fly list was on 7 countries that are known breeding grounds of terrorists. The fact that they are all predominantly Muslim countries is no accident. One of Trump’s many failings is that he didn’t correct the Media narrative.
Eva says
The ‘media’ was against him right from the start. They were, and are, major collaborators in the propaganda war waged against him by the dhimms.
And if you want to talk about ‘many failings’ perhaps you should start with sleazy joe’s adventures in china and ukraine…
Keith O says
I find it amusing that the UAE, a mudslime country, finds it necessary to put a ban on mudslimes coming into their country due to security concerns.
Maybe the so called “leadership” of other countries can take their snouts out of the trough long enough to see this and take notice of it.
somehistory says
This ban may seem strange to those who don’t wish to see Truth for fear it might make them see the need to change something, that moslims ***know*** what islam is all about and what moslims who are devout are capable of doing. moslims are fully aware that islam teaches terrorism as a part of the backbone of their belief.
The spine of their cult is terror. If they can threaten terror and get what they want, they have it easier. If threats don’t work, terrorism answers the call because that is what moslims are taught…terrorism works; people pay attention to terrorists and talk about them long after they are dead.
So, when this moslim country bans moslims from elsewhere, it’s because they know islam and they know moslims and their country is not immune…moslims frequently kill other moslims in moslim controlled nations.
People who think they know what islam is all about, and then claim it’s peaceful and has no connection to terror, should be taking note of what these moslims…who know islam, actually Know it, have done and why.
Infidel says
One more thing about this ban is that unlike the US ban, this ban actually does affect a considerable percentage of Muslims. Pakistan’s presence alone makes it quite significant, even if Bangladesh, Indonesia and India are not on the list. Add to that all those Muslim countries like Turkey, Afghanistan, Algeria, Kenya, Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia, in addition to the same countries that are on the US list, and it does add up to quite a bit
However, while the Emirates might be friendly w/ the regime in Riyadh, they would do well not to overlook the Saudis either. MbS might be fine w/ Israel, but that by no means implies that his people are
somehistory says
That’s all true. The moslim ban that isn’t, allowed in many, many moslims. Some threw a fit, with much media attention, to get in from iraq. And succeeded.
UVG says
India isn’t a muslim country. Indians have built the UAE!
UVG says
Have to find better ways to sort out Islamic virus in India however.
gravenimage says
UAE Enforces Its Own ‘Muslim Ban’
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Hilarious–but how many in the West will ever notice?
OLD GUY says
Hope the dope Biden doesn’t remove the ban on these countries.
gravenimage says
Imagine if the US had had a “Muslim ban” dating from 2001 how much safer we would be–this is what President Bush suggested after 9/11, but it was shot down.