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Re:Time to Take a Stand by buyx on Saturday January 28, 2017 @10:33PM (#13511842)
Where in the EO does Muslim come into play?

So Trump campaigned on a promise to ban Muslims from entering the US. He then instituted a blanket ban on entry from 7 overwhelmingly Muslim countries. Are we splitting hairs again implying that these two things are a coincidence because the wording of the EO happened to avoid a blatantly unconstitutional formulation?

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Re:Time to Take a Stand by andrewvc on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:34PM (#13512142)
And the EO has an exception for 'religious minorities', which are (surprise) never muslim in majority muslim countries.
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Re:Time to Take a Stand by true_religion on Sunday January 29, 2017 @04:45AM (#13513366)
It seems pretty ineffective to ban people from 7 nations, and ignore the nations where the vast majority of Muslims actually live and do business.

Do people really think Somalia is some kind of Isamic power-player versus Saudi Arabia or the Emirates?

These countries were not picked randomly because they "Muslim". There is a long standing animosity against them. A retired US general in 2007 said: “We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran...”[1].

And now which countries are banned: Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen... that's 6 out of the 7 named above.

Now please do not read this as a defence of the executive order. Whatever its intentions, it was poorly implemented and applied with seemingly no thought to the political fallout or the disruption to peoples' lives. Green card holders in America deserve better than no-notice before being detained at the borders.

However, it seems to me that every one of the countries named is currently embroiled in a civil war or has strong non-governmental forces within its borders----that is the commonality that they share.

[1] http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-count...

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Re:Time to Take a Stand by buyx on Sunday January 29, 2017 @02:15AM (#13512769)
And the EO has an exception for 'religious minorities', which are (surprise) never muslim in majority muslim countries.

I don't follow..a religious minority in a Muslim majority country would by definition not be Muslim. Why is this surprising?

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Re:Time to Take a Stand by versteegen on Sunday January 29, 2017 @10:43AM (#13514573)
When '(surprise!)' is written in brackets like that, or otherwise thrown in as an interjection, it is almost always intended sarcastically. This is a very common written English idiom (at least online).
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