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Trump's Muslim Ban Will Only Spark More Terrorist Attacks
Cockburn, Patrick
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/31/trumps-muslim-ban-will-only-spark-more-terrorist-attacks/Date Written: 2017-01-31 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20412 Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and visitors from seven Muslim countries entering the US makes a terrorist attack on Americans at home or abroad more rather than less likely. It does so because one of the main purposes of al-Qaeda and Isis in carrying out atrocities is to provoke an over-reaction directed against Muslim communities and states. Abstract: - Excerpt: The Trump administration is now sending a message to al-Qaeda and Isis that Washington is easily provoked into mindless and counter-productive repression targeting Muslims in general. Those affected so far are limited in number and about the last people likely to be engaged in terrorist plots. But the political impact is already immense. Salafi-jihadi leaders may be monsters of cruelty and bigotry, but they are not stupid. They will see that if Trump, unprovoked by any terrorist outrage, will act with such self-defeating vigour, then a few bombs or shootings directed at American targets will lead to more scatter-gun persecution of Muslims. Subject Headings |