Once again, the left-wing media that dominate the news cycle have perpetuated a lie by accusing President Trump of religious bigotry in his temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim countries with known terrorism problems.
The dishonest media forgot to acknowledge the fact that there are more than 40 predominantly Muslim nations in the world and less than 20 percent of Muslim nations were affected by the temporary order.
Certainly, one can put forth reasonable arguments about the merits of the ban on a number of fronts, but the divisive, radical left-wing movement has no interest in truth or accuracy, so it instead made this a religious issue.
Remember this: The left-wingers never marched or protested after 3,000 people were killed on 9 /11, and they never marched in such large numbers to protest the atrocious murders of innocents killed by illegal aliens or gang members, either.
The left-wing people of our nation only care about the lives and safety of Americans when it serves their political agenda. They are a shameful, divisive and hypocritical lot indeed.
Corby Pelto, Plymouth
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President Trump's executive order that bars or discourages Muslims from visiting or immigrating to America will mean that fewer Muslims will learn firsthand what actually makes America great: individual Americans who extend a welcoming hand to "the other" before making judgments.
I lived and worked in Saudi Arabia for 20 years, and I saw how that worked with Saudi Arabs who spent some time in the U.S. One Saudi friend — we are both in our 81st year — calls me on Christian holidays to wish my family well. I remember when he returned to Dhahran in 1967 from a year at an elite East Coast university. As tears formed in his eyes, he told me he had found in his landlady a second mother who had soothed his insecurities and made his American experience so positive. She was an elderly Jewish woman. "I had been brought up to believe Jews had horns growing out of their heads," he said, shaking his head in shame.
