Donald Trump is calling for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States," his campaign said on Monday, until "our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."
Trump Wants 'Total and Complete Shutdown' of Muslims Entering U.S. - Bloomberg Politics
Let me see if I get this right. So Trump wants no Muslim entering the US anymore. Even if this would be possible, or practicable (which I very much doubt) I'm pretty sure it is actually completely counterproductive.
Violence and terrorism springs up mainly in communities that feel isolated, alienated, excluded. Go to the banlieu's of Paris, or Amsterdam west, or any rough parts of almost major city in Europe, and you almost enter another country. Of course in the Middle East things are far worse. Disfunctional politics (mostly supported by the West, by the way) and economics leaves large parts of society with no place, no role, while sectarism, often of a violent nature, is blasted into their living rooms via 80+ satellite channels.
Now, there are what, 5, 6, perhaps even 12 million muslims in the US. With hysteria like this, are we going to push a few of them over the edge?
But of course they can still buy all the automatic weapons they like, even if we think they're too dangerous to board a plane...
Trump is too much of a winner in order to have any understanding of what it feels like being a loser, feeling not to have any stake in society (rightly or wrongly).
This is only going to make things worse. We need to make the Muslim community our ally in this struggle, not alienate them.