{"id":19489,"date":"2017-01-29T03:52:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T03:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19489"},"modified":"2017-01-29T03:52:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T03:52:22","slug":"muslim-ban-plays-straight-into-the-terrorists-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19489","title":{"rendered":"Muslim ban plays straight into the terrorists’ hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Now he’s done it.<\/p>\n

The president of the United States has just ordered a ban on all\u00a0immigrants this country from certain Muslim-majority countries. His fear is that immigrants from those countries might be terrorists intent on blowing us all up.<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump has just demonstrated — as if anyone really needed an explanation — how little he understands about the very nature of the nation he was elected to lead.<\/p>\n

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Not only has the order enraged Democrats across the nation, it has split Republicans as well. It has once again cast a serious chaotic spin on the activities associated with the president who’s been in office a week and one day.<\/p>\n

Just think, Dear Reader, we’ve got four whole years of this.<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, said he understands Trump’s desire to protect us against terrorists but a “blanket ban” on immigrants from Muslim countries demonizes those who practice a certain religion unfairly. The president, Flake said, needs a “clear-eyed view” that doesn’t ascribe “radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims.”<\/p>\n

That, however, is what Trump has just done.<\/p>\n

Moreover, as Sen. Susan Collins (pictured), a Maine Republican, has noted, such a blanket ban will create problems immediately for the president.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump\u00a0has just ratcheted up the fight that appears to imply that, by golly, we are<\/em> at war with Islam —\u00a0a principle rejected<\/em> categorically<\/em> by his two immediate predecessors, Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Barack H. Obama.<\/p>\n\n

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Now he’s done it. The president of the United States has just ordered a ban on all\u00a0immigrants this country from certain Muslim-majority countries. His fear is that immigrants from those countries might be terrorists intent on blowing us all up. Donald J. Trump has just demonstrated — as if anyone really needed an explanation — … Continue reading Muslim ban plays straight into the terrorists’ hands<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[540,1899,2245,2430,6025,4477],"class_list":["post-19489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-george-w-bush","tag-immigration","tag-jeff-flake","tag-muslim-ban","tag-susan-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19491,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489\/revisions\/19491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}