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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles by xiangmin on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:22AM (#13771941)
> a ban on people from a particular faith

Is it though? For example of Muslim, it does not even affect about 88% of the world's Muslims (Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria, Turkey, Malaysia, others)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country

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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles by sgustard on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:46AM (#13772883)
It's trivial to find stories of people being detained trying to enter from any of those countries.

Bangladesh: http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/02/02/bangladesh...

Egypt: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/26...

Nigeria: http://indianexpress.com/article/world/donald-trump-travel-b...

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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles by baddox on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:16AM (#13772192)
I don't see why the percentage of Muslims in the world is relevant. The internment of Japanese Americans in the 1940s certainly targeted Japanese people despite that being a small percentage of Japanese people in the world.
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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles by paulddraper on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:19AM (#13772771)
The US didn't intern Japanese. They interned Japanese Americans, so that is the scope of discussion.

And yes, it would be significant if the US targeted the 99% of the Japanese population vs the 1% most concerning part.

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