US Election & Presidency

(10-02-2017 14:22 )skully Wrote:  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...uestioning

Quote:Concerns that US border patrol agents are targeting minorities have grown in the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order blocking refugees and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries from entry into the US.

The order caused chaos at US ports of entry when it was enacted two weeks ago and though a federal court has blocked it from being enforced, claims of aggressive, and potentially illegal, treatment have lingered.

This week, Canadian citizen Fadwa Alaoui said she was denied entry to the US after border officials asked probing questions about her Muslim faith and her views on Trump.

Alaoui was born in Morocco but has lived in Canada for more than 20 years, traveling to the US regularly to visit family. But on her way to Vermont for a day of shopping with two of her children and an adult cousin, she was stopped for four hours at the border.

Alaoui – who wears a hijab – said border officials asked her several questions about her faith. "He said ‘Do you practice? Which mosque do you go to? What is the name of the imam? How often do you go to the mosque? What kind of discussions do you hear in the mosque? Does the imam talk to you directly?"

She said they also examined her phone and asked questions about Arabic videos on the device. Alaoui told them they were videos of daily prayers she had received from friends, to help her and her son as he went through chemo. An agent later explained that the videos were why she was being blocked from entry.

“I felt humiliated, treated as if I was less than nothing. It’s as if I wasn’t Canadian,” she told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Imagine how bad it will be if he gets his way!

New age Nazi party alive and well

http://www.rte.ie/news/world/2017/0210/8...ald-trump/

This is getitng utterly rediculous, even by this threads standards.

Feel free to tell us the alternative facts.

SHOCK HORROR - A national leader tries to get control of their nations borders after getting elected whilst saying they would try to get control of their national borders.

The intention is good the problem is how he is going about it.

^ Exactly. The wording of it and all of this anti Islam/Muslim rhetoric before, during and after he was elected is the problem.

The fact is, he and his minions (and his master Bannon) are tarring an entire religion with blame for a relatively small radical element (relatively speaking), who have bastardized parts of the religion for their own ends. Now considering the problem they have with racists and white supremacists in America, who use the bible as a tool for their hate, it's more than a little hypocritical.

Stats and facts prove that this is an overreaction.

He just doesn't know how to handle the power of being President

Security & border forces use racial profiling and it's a fact the the majority of foreign born terrorists are Muslim (or claim to be, I appreciate they have a warped view of their religion) which is of course not saying all Muslims are terrorists. As such Muslims or those travelling from Muslim countries are subject to profiling. It's used by all nations. I have personally been questioned entering Muslim countries due to certain stamps in my passport. It's sadly a fact of modern life.