New Travel Ban Garners Same Verdict in Middle East: A Slap at Muslims<br />In Iraq, where the initial ban had drawn the sharpest criticism, relieved officials welcomed President Trump’s decision to<br />drop their country from the list of nations whose citizens will be barred from entering the United States for 90 days.<br />Among citizens in the banned countries, the sense of injustice is compounded when they look at richer or more powerful neighbors, like Egypt or Saudi Arabia, whose<br />citizens have carried out major attacks in the United States, yet which have escaped Mr. Trump’s censure because their governments are harder to push around.<br />Yet in the other six countries still on Mr. Trump’s list, his decision to push<br />ahead with the ban only stoked their sense of grievance and discrimination.<br />When the ban was announced in January, it prompted calls from some officials in Baghdad for Iraq to reciprocate with a ban<br />on Americans entering Iraq, putting the American-backed prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, under political pressure to act.<br />By DECLAN WALSHMARCH 6, 2017<br />CAIRO — Lighter, tighter and more carefully worded, the reworked travel ban announced by the Trump administration on Monday<br />aims to pass legal muster in the United States while meeting its stated objective of combating Islamist terrorism.<br />Yet Mr. Trump’s assault on the news media as an "enemy of the people" has uncomfortable echoes in many countries, and some have taken the parallels to signify<br />that the United States has entered an unwelcome phase.
