While civilised societies of the world continue to condemn the US government’s travel ban decision, and a US federal judge blocks part of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, the incumbent US government seems adamant to further extend this list and include other Muslim countries in it.
In this scenario, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s offer to accommodate the affected refugees in his country has indeed come as a breath of fresh air for them. His courage and magnanimity has been immensely appreciated by the civilised world out-and-out. Bravo!
Whatever is happening in the US today is beyond one’s stretch of imagination. The civilised world in general and the Muslim world in particular are at a loss to understand how things would shape up under the new US administration in the days and months to come. If this is how the beginning is, God forbid, the end could be even worse.
- FAZAL ELAHI
Islamabad
