Less than a week into his presidency, Donald Trump made good one of his electoral promises (at least in the meantime) by issuing an Executive order banning Muslims from entering America.

The ban continues to generate reactions all over the world with ‘victims’ beginning to emerge from among those who thought the President’s action was both silly and misguided. One such victim was Sally Yates; a federal attorney who was relieved of duty for urging government lawyers to stop defending what was thought to be an obnoxious order.


The timing of the order itself coincided almost with the anniversary of the World Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 26) set aside to remember the victims of Hitler’s World War II misadventure. Whether like Hitler, Trump intends to hand to Muslims their own holocaust episode is a matter for conjecture which can only be unravelled by events as they unfold.

However, something is strikingly similar in Trumps’ posture as in Hitler’s which perhaps threw him up for a president. The zeitgeist or the dominant spirit in some parts of Euro-America is the belief that their ‘lands of dream’ have been taken over by ‘strangers’; strangers who even though may have contributed more than ‘indigenes’ nevertheless remain ‘outsiders’ and therefore needed to be ‘cleansed’.

As it happened in Hitler’s Germany, an ‘enemy’ figure, nay a scapegoat has to be ‘manufactured’; and looking at how post- Cold War conflicts have been predicted (and worked towards), the ‘enemy’ has to wear not an ideological ‘garb’ this time around, but a ‘religious’ one

Reading the Executive order, Trump did not name the countries by himself. From other spokes organs of the US government, however, the names were learnt to include Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Syria all Muslim majority counties. To be sure that his target was Muslims, he emphasised his willingness to accommodate Syrian refugees of the Christian faith.



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