After the tragedy of Paris and California's terrorists attack by a Muslim couple, Trump published a new controversial message, to ban giving US visa to all Muslims temporary .
This was a big news, one of those news that the people who you haven't talked to in a while would call you and say, "Hey did you hear what Donald Trump said ?"
Everyone I know is extremely mad at his comments (even progressive Muslims I know are mad at it).
I spent hours talking to myself, what do I think about this ? To be honest with you I did not like it either, no matter how secular I be, I hold a passport from an Islamic country, which already does make it hard for me to travel...this comments are not gonna make my life any easier.
However deep inside I am happy Donald Trump talked about it, this was a discussion we had to have, without hiding behind politically correct words. without being shy that someone might be offended. I hate it when people dislike something but don't have the guts to talk about it.
I like to ask any muslim who is mad at Trump one question :
Is it morally acceptable for a country to ban a whole nation or religious group to enter the country?
a highway exit in Saudi Arabia for non-muslems |
In the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Non-Muslims are not allowed to enter the city
an example passport banning Israel |
The entire country of Israel is not allowed to travel to those countries, and it is NOT temporarily.
Mind that this banning non-muslims did NOT happen after a non-muslim blowed himself up into civilians or shoot a party of co-workers...
Mind that this banning non-muslims did NOT happen after a non-muslim blowed himself up into civilians or shoot a party of co-workers...
So I think if you are a muslim and you are really mad at Trump, I hope you are mad at Islamic countries for doing the worse than that. otherwise you will be hypocritical ! This is a good opportunity to test your logic and fairness.
Sometimes we humans want something from others, but we are not willing to give the same back to them. and that is source of a lot of conflicts in the world. For example in Turkey, they have resisted to allow education in Kurdish language in primary schools for millions of Kurds in their own homeland, but Turkey is mad at Germany for not having Turkish-only language primary schools for immigrants. and Turkey's stupid banning Kurdish language has created a conflict which is still going on today... (list of Kurdish children killed by Turkish army just in the past two weeks)
I think Donald's blunt unfiltered plan is not realistic to implement but it is an opportunity for all of us to start to think and have some blunt dialogue across the world.
I think Donald's blunt unfiltered plan is not realistic to implement but it is an opportunity for all of us to start to think and have some blunt dialogue across the world.
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