Trump's New Muslim Ban Order Part of 'Ugly White Supremacist Agenda'
CAIR said the new order places restrictions on travel to the United States from eight countries and comes as the previous ban on visitors from six Muslim-majority countries was set expire today.
Trump kept restrictions on five of the six Muslim-majority nations – Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen– and added new restrictions on visitors from Chad, North Korea and Venezuela.
In a statement reacting to the new Muslim ban, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said: "With this latest iteration of the discriminatory and unconstitutional Muslim ban, coupled with the race-baiting of professional athletes exercising their First Amendment rights and a reluctance to condemn neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, President Trump once again demonstrates that his views and policies are part of a white supremacist agenda.
"This ugly agenda is nothing new. This is a man who was sued for refusing to rent to African-Americans, who called for the death penalty for five African-American and Hispanic young people falsely accused of rape, who was once quoted as objecting to having African-Americans 'counting my money,' who retweeted racist and anti-Semitic material, who called for a 'total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,' who called Mexican immigrants 'rapists,' and who said a judge's Mexican heritage made him unfit to preside over a case.
"This is also a man who rose to national infamy by leading the 'birther' movement, which falsely claimed President Obama was not born in this country.
"Perhaps the truest indicator of the president's white supremacist agenda is the fact that he is embraced by racists, Islamophobes, neo-Nazis, and bigots of all stripes who see his views as reflecting their own.
"Ten months after his election, instead of promoting the values that lifted up this nation, Donald Trump is still trying to divide Americans.
"These hard truths must now be faced by all Americans, who -- as individuals -- need to decide if they are on the side of traditional American aspirations of religious and racial inclusion, or if they envision a 'Trump' America in which members of only one group dominate and reap the benefits of citizenship."
On Friday, CAIR urged the Trump Administration to refrain from issuing a new Muslim ban, noting that more stealthy attempts to implement that controversial executive order will be just as "unconstitutional and un-American" as the previous attempts. #NoMuslimBanEver
Last week, CAIR announced the filing of an amicus ("friend of the court") brief with the US Supreme Court on behalf of seven American Muslims opposing the Trump administration's original Muslim ban and urging the court to declare it unconstitutional.
Source: PRNewsWire
