Traveling to America While Muslim<br />But, because of the Trump administration’s travel ban prohibiting most visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries, she now says, "That’s not going to happen." Contrary to recent reports of the United States being inundated with international travelers this year, with international arrivals<br />and travel-related spending in the United States up in 2017 compared with the same period last year, a subset of travelers — British Muslims — is rethinking its plans.<br />Mr. Versi, with the Muslim Council of Britain, said recent high-profile cases involving Muslim travelers, including a teacher on a field trip<br />and a family heading to Disneyland who were stopped from travel to the United States, have further alarmed British Muslims.<br />What is especially disheartening to me and many of my Muslim friends is<br />that our British-ness — our love of English breakfast tea with buttery biscuits, our obsession with soccer clubs (mine being the Arsenal club in North London), our British slang and mannerisms that lead our Somali parents, rolling their eyes, to call us "fish and chips," not even our valid travel documents — protect us.<br />" There are concerns, he said, "because of the fears of what might happen when they travel or arrive there." Ms. Abokor is among them.<br />that Some British Muslims don’t want to go to the United States because of the hassle of traveling there.<br />"A place that does not want my people, then you don’t deserve my tourist money." Among my circle of friends<br />and acquaintances in London’s Muslim scene, especially those of us who have dual citizenship, traveling to the United States is now fraught with uncertainty, fear and insult because of President Trump’s travel ban, which was partly revived in June after a Supreme Court ruling.<br />Ms. Abokor said her United States travel plans came to an abrupt end following the Supreme Court’s ruling last month<br />that the Trump administration could mostly enforce his original executive order issued one week into his presidency in January.
