People across Facebook and the Twittersphere have taken a collective sigh of relief online today at the announcement Trump’s travel ban from people travelling from Muslim countries doesn’t apply to cherished famous Muslims.
And in a special dispensation secured by Trump’s fellow foppy yellow moppy toppy Boris Johnson, British Muslims will now no longer be barred, but not those with dual nationality, they’re still bad Muslims.
Trump had initially barred all people born in 7 Muslim countries from entering, even those with green cards.
But then people realised that this applied to celebrity Muslims. One, Mo Farrah, was one of the best olympians of all time, now unable to train in the US on his training ground.
Worst of all, another one of them was a Tory MP with a plummy accent! Nadhim Zahawi said he couldn’t enter the US because he was born in Baghdad, fleeing as a youth as a Kurdish refugee in 1970.
Well that was just beyond the pale old boy and something just had to be done. It wasn’t long before, coincidentally also plummy accented, Bojo, had the whole misunderstanding ironed out. Good old Boris.
It turns out that you can’t make sweeping judgements on people by virtue of nationality of origin or religion. Not just because it’s abhorrent and discriminatory, but because some Muslims went to private school.
The car crash in slow motion that is the Trump administration continues.
