Trump’s ban

With regard to “Refugees detained after Trump ban on Holocaust Remembrance Day” (January 29), Islamic leaders object to the American lifestyle and do not welcome Americans to live in Muslim lands, since they bring their infidel culture with them.

Muslim leaders thus should discourage their faithful from migrating to the land of the Big Satan. They should approve of President Donald Trump’s ban. CHARLES OREN

Herzliya

The Jerusalem Post is acting like the American media vis a vis President Donald Trump – it distorts and misleads the public.

The headline indicates that Trump signed an executive order limiting refugees in entering the US. Adding the words “on Holocaust Remembrance Day” was at best unnecessary, and at worst derogatory. Do your headline writers actually think that the president looked at the calendar, saw it was Holocaust Day and said, “Oh, I am going to ban the refugees today”?

The Jewish organizations that object to the ban have an understandable point, given American Jewish history during World War II. But at the same time, they need to understand the difference between the two types of refugees: There were no terrorists among the Jews entering the US at that time.

This latest directive is needed desperately. URI HIRSCH Jerusalem

I read with dismay that many prominent Jews and Jewish organizations find it offensive that President Donald Trump issued his ban during Holocaust Remembrance Day. In my opinion, one could not pick a more appropriate occasion.

President Trump recognizes in a stark and morally centered way the threat posed by Islamic terrorism. He has referred to suicide bombers with obvious emotion as “rats.” Indeed they are, and hooray for President Trump!

Seeing as Jews are Enemy Number One of the people Trump disdains and wants to exclude, his action is one that protects Jews from possible harm. The appropriate reaction should be one of gratitude and relief that we finally have a president who takes Jewish, and American, security concerns seriously. DAVID KATCOFF Charleston, South Carolina

Isi Leibler’s sane “Pseudo-liberal Jews are causing unspeakable damage” (Candidly Speaking, January 29) serves as an antidote to the madness I’ve been hearing since US President Donald Trump’s executive order on refugees. However, the crux of the matter is not being addressed: The ban should be on ideological, not religious grounds.

During the Cold War, communists could get into the US only through a waiver. Since Islam is not only a religion, but a political ideology, Trump is applying similar rules to Muslims, and we should view this as targeting the ideology.

If there were a way to easily differentiate between what Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls the “Mecca Muslims” (i.e., “Muslims who are loyal to the core creed and worship devoutly, but are not inclined to practice violence”) and the “Medina Muslims” (who “see the forcible imposition of Shari’a as their religious duty”), there would be less of a problem. But this test is not easy to come up with, so it makes sense that until then, there should be a ban. MLADEN ANDRIJASEVIC

Beersheba

Israelis are not permitted to enter 15 countries, including Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Yemen. Can someone show me where all the demonstrations are concerning this discriminatory policy?

When it’s Jews who are locked out, it seems that nobody, including the Left’s humanitarians, cares. KAREN PISK Netanya