London Bridge, not to be confused with the much more famous Tower Bridge, at dusk
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It isn\u2019t yet clear who is responsible for\u00a0tonight\u2019s horrific events\u00a0in London, but I\u2019ll be enormously surprised if one or more of them\u00a0weren\u2019t terrorist attacks carried out by radicalized Muslims.<\/p>\n
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In response, Mr. Trump has said that \u201cWe need the travel ban.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Well . . .<\/p>\n
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Perhaps it would be advisable on other grounds.<\/p>\n
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And perhaps the perpetrators of tonight\u2019s outrages will turn out to be foreign-born.<\/p>\n
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But a British travel ban wouldn\u2019t have stopped Salman Abedi, the perpetrator of the 22 May 2017 mass murder of little girls in Manchester, England. \u00a0Abedi was of Libyan descent, but he was born in Manchester. \u00a0Which also means that, as a native-born British subject, he would not have been covered by Mr. Trump\u2019s proposed\u00a0ban on travel from certain Islamic countries.<\/p>\n
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Nor would\u00a0a British travel ban have stopped Khalid Masood, the perpetrator of the murderous 22 March\u00a02017 attack on Westminster Bridge, in London. \u00a0Masood, whose original name was Adrian Russell Elms,\u00a0was born in Kent and grew up in Sussex. \u00a0Thus, as a native-born British convert to Islam, he would also have been unaffected by\u00a0Mr. Trump\u2019s proposed\u00a0ban on travel from certain Islamic countries.<\/p>\n
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Clear thinking is essential on such matters as this.<\/p>\n
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