‘TRUMP TRAVEL BAN A GIFT TO EXTREMISTS’

Bangkok: President Donald Trump’s attempts to ban people from six Muslim countries from travelling to the United States “played into the hands” of extremists, the UK’s former prime minister said on Wednesday. Trump has said a travel ban is needed to preserve national security and keep out extremists. But federal judges have halted Trump’s revised executive order issued in March to temporarily close US borders to refugees and nationals from six Muslimmajority countries. David Cameron condemned the Trump administration’s proposed travel ban, saying it alienated Muslim moderates and allies, as senior figures from global tourism gathered in Bangkok for a conference. Cameron said violent Islamism was “the biggest threat to our world and to this industry” but that leaders should not promote policies that emboldened extremists.