Rapid-firing Trump

This does not mean that countries not listed on this ban list have been given international approval

Afew days ago, I mentioned that the threats made against ‘Radical Islam’ by US President Donald Trump during his inauguration are directed at us Arabs more than at anybody else. But Arab countries do not represent all Muslims, who mainly live in countries like Indonesia, India, the central Asian republics, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey and China.

Whenever news breaks about a terrorist act associated with Islam, all eyes turn to the Middle East because of the amount of extremism in our societies, which have turned into venues for violence and reservoirs of radicalism.

President Trump’s inaugural speech, which also mocked US elite politicians, confirmed that Arabs were the ones targeted by his threats, rather than all Muslims. He banned entry visas for Iranian passport-holders, along with those of several other Arab countries: Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia and Libya. This American decision might soon turn into an international one, especially given that Trump intends on forming an anti-radical Islam alliance from ‘civilized’ nations!

The purpose of the ban is to spread chaos in the targeted countries because of the dominance of radical Islam, which provides safehavens for extremism and eventually begets terrorism. However, the world realizes that political Islam does exist in other Arab countries. So, this does not mean that countries not listed on this ban list have been given international approval. If some political analysts’ predictions prove true, the war against anti-radical Islam is progressing, will take many forms and will run on many fronts at a rapidly accelerating pace. This is made clear by Trump turning his electoral promises into action! —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa