04-22-2017, 05:57 AM
Reply to PaulW
Poor debating point? Well it is not my viewpoint. It is a contrived argument that you made up.
The assertion that we are discriminating against Muslims with the 6 nations ban is specious. We did not ban Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates or many other Muslim-majority nations.
And it was the Obama administration in 2015 that first identified those 7 countries (now 6 since Iraq has been taken off) for increased scrutiny for their citizens traveling into the U.S.
The arguments against the ban have some merit. It is a fair legal question. But the position that the ban was devised for the primary intent of religious discrimination (and racism) is hyperbole.
Re Kalakoa’s views
I am not clear on the point of your first sentence. Your reference about our interfering with other nations' sovereignty and then receiving the consequences is correct. There does seem to be an additional perspective (mostly with ISIS) of pious religious people disliking decadent Western civilization and engaging in conflict with us (mostly Europe) on that account.
Poor debating point? Well it is not my viewpoint. It is a contrived argument that you made up.
The assertion that we are discriminating against Muslims with the 6 nations ban is specious. We did not ban Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates or many other Muslim-majority nations.
And it was the Obama administration in 2015 that first identified those 7 countries (now 6 since Iraq has been taken off) for increased scrutiny for their citizens traveling into the U.S.
The arguments against the ban have some merit. It is a fair legal question. But the position that the ban was devised for the primary intent of religious discrimination (and racism) is hyperbole.
Re Kalakoa’s views
I am not clear on the point of your first sentence. Your reference about our interfering with other nations' sovereignty and then receiving the consequences is correct. There does seem to be an additional perspective (mostly with ISIS) of pious religious people disliking decadent Western civilization and engaging in conflict with us (mostly Europe) on that account.