The Muslim ban’s seven countries shared only Muslim-majority status

Evidence

On January 27, 2017, shortly after his inauguration, Trump signed Executive Order 13769, Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, which banned noncitizens from seven countries from entering the United States. The countries were Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Iran. This executive order was quickly dubbed a “Muslim ban” because the only common characteristic these countries shared was that they were all Muslim-majority. The very same evening the order was signed, chaos unfolded in U.S. airports. Refugees were banned from coming to the United States and sent back to countries where their lives were in danger. Travelers, many with valid visas, were stopped at the U.S. border and detained for hours. Some were mothers traveling with young children, while others were older adults coming to visit their kids who lived in the United States. Several passengers found themselves stranded in their country of origin because they were not allowed to board flights flying back to the United States. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 482

On January 27, 2017, shortly after his inauguration, Trump signed Executive Order 13769, Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, which banned noncitizens from seven countries from entering the United States. The countries were Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Iran. This executive order was quickly dubbed a “Muslim ban” because the only common characteristic these countries shared was that they were all Muslim-majority. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘Muslim ban’ as state-level racialization of religion is the concrete policy anchor for Selod’s thesis that faith gets treated as race.
• ADDENDUM: Directly feeds the map slot this book replaces; ban’s arbitrary enforcement is evidence surveillance racializes a religious category.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 482; Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480