Muslim women protest against US President Donald Trump on February 19 in Chicago, Illinois. Anti-Muslim ideologues have for years treated Islam as a non-religion that threatens American life and law through a violent ideology of sharia. Photo: AFP
Muslim women protest against US President Donald Trump on February 19 in Chicago, Illinois. Anti-Muslim ideologues have for years treated Islam as a non-religion that threatens American life and law through a violent ideology of sharia. Photo: AFP
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Trump’s Muslim ban may have already served its hate-mongering purpose

Cherian George says the defeat in court has not stopped the Islamophobia network behind the plan from gaining the public space it craves to air its fringe views, which may well be its primary aim

Cherian George
Cherian George

Updated: 7:39pm, 28 Feb, 2017

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Muslim women protest against US President Donald Trump on February 19 in Chicago, Illinois. Anti-Muslim ideologues have for years treated Islam as a non-religion that threatens American life and law through a violent ideology of sharia. Photo: AFP
Muslim women protest against US President Donald Trump on February 19 in Chicago, Illinois. Anti-Muslim ideologues have for years treated Islam as a non-religion that threatens American life and law through a violent ideology of sharia. Photo: AFP
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