Playing dumb
CFI on the Reactionary 5’s grotesque ruling:
Ruling on the case of Trump v. Hawaii, in a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court declared that the president has the authority to prohibit travelers from select countries to enter the U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, asserted that the travel ban did not unconstitutionally discriminate against Muslims because “the text says nothing about religion.”
“This ban is about religious discrimination, and to claim otherwise is completely absurd,” said Nick Little, CFI’s Vice President and General Counsel. “As far back as 2015, Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to see Muslims banned from the United States, and promised to carry out this ban once in office. He followed through, and the Supreme Court, unconscionably, is letting him get away with it.”
“Chief Justice Roberts is a brilliant man who is playing dumb,” added Little. “He knows very well that this is not about other countries’ vetting processes or the scope of presidential authority. This is about fomenting fear of Muslims.”
Fear and also hatred. Trump is all about the hatred.
And, of course, surrendering to ISIS.
It bears repeating: The ban is precisely what ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, et al, want. They want a faceless West that offers no sympathy to their victims. They want a captive and terrified population with nowhere to turn for succor or escape. What they don’t want is for Muslims who disagree with their vile form of the religion to go elsewhere and discover that it’s possible to be Muslim (albeit not the sort they want to recognize as ‘true Muslims’) in a secular society. They certainly don’t want them writing relatives back home that it’s possible for a woman to be a Muslim and not wear a face-veil, or go out only accompanied by a related man, or even decide for herself whom to marry.
Trump couldn’t be servicing the Islamists better if he were at the podium shouting “Allahu Akbar”.