Donald Trump’s statement calling for “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” is way off the mark of what a Presidential Candidate should even suggest. Not only is it wrong but impossible to enforce. Of course we need tighter security for those entering the country and building a wall whether it be an actual structure or a technical detour is essential but telling 1 billion people that they aren’t invited into this country is something that is completely stupid. Here are just a few problems with his statement.
(1) UNCONSTITUTIONAL- I’m sure that the courts will over-rule this type of action as blatant discrimination against individuals because of their religion.
(2) UNJUST- Imagine an American Citizen who is Muslim trying to invite relatives from out of the country to attend their child’s wedding or G-D forbid funeral and being denied access to this country.
(3)STUPID- Insulting a billion people ( 99 % who are good, peace loving people) is just dumb and will cause us problems with diplomacy. Can you imagine asking Jordan, Egypt or other predominately Muslim countries with help in defeating ISIS when we have defamed the entire Muslim faith?
(4) INEFFECTIVE- Terrorist will deny their faith or even convert temporally to enter the country and act out their despicable actions. They will also have more supporters for such evil acts.