Imagine your normal everyday life, with your family and friends in a quite suburban town in the U.S. You go around your day-to-day mundane tasks with familiarity that feels safe and prosperous. You have the feeling of achievement as you look around your well house, which is well furnished and in a good neighborhood. Your wife and children are sitting on the porch, and you feel satisfied thinking your children will be able to go to college and you and your wife will be able to retire comfortably on your pension fund and life savings. You have a close circle of friends who have come to substitute the extended family that you left behind when you first came to the U.S, without money or a job, but with a belief in the American dream. You feel content, happy.
Now imagine the next day, there is a threat of all of this being ripped away from you. Donald Trump has passed the …show more content…
Muslims within the countries banned have been targeted by terrorism more than the American population has, and as such has lost much more: their families, loved ones, lives, homes and prospects. Therefore, a ban on the victims of terrorism seems to be too extreme. Moreover, such a ban will not serve its purpose and may in fact increase hostilities between Muslims and the U.S; the terrorists will have an argument against the U.S to turn people against them, as the U.S is the nation who banned them and restricted their return to their lives. In addition, is does not seem fair to generalize the whole of the Muslim populations of the countries banned based on the extremely small minority that follows and supports terrorist activities. The ban is almost a Racist one, and as such not beneficial for Muslims or even the citizens of the U.S, as it will promote feelings of Racism within the citizens of the US, undermining the feeling of tolerance that the U.S vows to
Now imagine the next day, there is a threat of all of this being ripped away from you. Donald Trump has passed the …show more content…
Muslims within the countries banned have been targeted by terrorism more than the American population has, and as such has lost much more: their families, loved ones, lives, homes and prospects. Therefore, a ban on the victims of terrorism seems to be too extreme. Moreover, such a ban will not serve its purpose and may in fact increase hostilities between Muslims and the U.S; the terrorists will have an argument against the U.S to turn people against them, as the U.S is the nation who banned them and restricted their return to their lives. In addition, is does not seem fair to generalize the whole of the Muslim populations of the countries banned based on the extremely small minority that follows and supports terrorist activities. The ban is almost a Racist one, and as such not beneficial for Muslims or even the citizens of the U.S, as it will promote feelings of Racism within the citizens of the US, undermining the feeling of tolerance that the U.S vows to