Thousands Protest Globally Against Trump, Travel Ban
Protests erupted for a third straight week across the United States and beyond, targeting policies of U.S. President Donald Trump and criticizing his presidential demeanor. Late Friday, a U.S. federal judge temporary blocked the president’s executive order, signed January 27, that banned travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. However, that didn’t […]
US court rejects bid to immediately restore travel ban
A US appeals court in San Francisco has denied an emergency motion filed by the justice department to reinstate President Donald Trump’s halted immigration ban. The decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit means the ban will remain frozen throughout the weekend, and that a decision on a further request to […]
Trump Takes to Twitter to Blast Judge in Travel Ban Ruling
President Donald Trump on Saturday hurled fresh criticism at a federal judge who temporarily blocked the president’s ban on travel to U.S. territory from seven predominantly Muslim countries, warning that the ruling would allow “many very bad and dangerous people into our country.” Trump’s verbal fusillade targeted U.S. Judge James Robart, 69, a jurist in […]
Why a 9/11 Survivor Cheers Immigration Ban Suspension
On September 11, 2011, my classmates and I were in middle school, three blocks away from the World Trade Center. Many of us also lived in the neighborhood directly in the vicinity of the Twin Towers, and a handful of us attempted to make it home after the second tower had been hit. We found […]
The media, Muslims and Trump’s travel ban
On The Listening Post this week: As US borders tighten, we trace the media narratives on immigrants, refugees and Muslim “Others”. Plus, how one of France’s richest men is colonising the media. Much of the mainstream media have expressed outrage at US President Donald Trump’s travel ban. But, look back over a decade of American […]
Trump’s Immigration Ban and the Loss of Our Democracy
I stood dismayed, the cold piercing my body, staring at a bleak landscape. It was 2002. I had just ended my first interrogation session of an al-Qaeda terrorist at one of our “black sites.” I wanted, like all my colleagues, to find and destroy the Islamic terrorists who had attacked my country. And I knew, […]
What the Bible says about welcoming refugees
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that placed a stay on refugees from seven Muslim majority countries. Entrance of refugees from Syria, however, will be banned for the next 120 days. Two days prior to…
Khan Wants Trump to Extend US Travel Ban to Pakistan
Pakistan’s leading opposition politician, Imran Khan, is urging President Donald Trump to ban Pakistanis from entering the United States, after he suspended immigration from seven Muslim majority countries. The controversial U.S. ban currently applies to Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Addressing a rally in the central Pakistani town of Sahiwal on Sunday, […]
Americans raise $600,000 to rebuild burned Texas mosque
A Texas community has rallied behind its Muslim residents after their mosque burnt to the ground shortly after President Donald Trump signed into effect a “Muslim ban” on refugees and others from seven Muslim-majority countries. Following the news that their house of worship in southeast Texas was completely destroyed early on Saturday, the Islamic Centre […]
International Reaction to Trump’s Refugee Ban Begins
International reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry to refugees and citizens from seven mostly-Muslim countries has begun. In addition to barring residents of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen from entering the U.S. for 90 days, the Trump executive order put a permanent ban on admission of Syrian refugees […]