Travel travails over Trump’s ban are steering anxious tourists towards other countries
Photo: An unidentified Muslim family marches at the Travel Ban protest march outside of Rep. Peter King's office on February 3, 2017 in Massapequa Park. Justin Starr Photography / Shutterstock, Inc.
Is it a ban or is it not? Has it been cancelled? Will it return? Is it anti-Muslim?
US President Donald Trump’s travel ban against the nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen—all Muslim-majority countries—quickly found itself up in the air. The Muslim travel world has watched these developments with fraught nerves.
Trump’s original Executive Order left Muslims like British athlete and Olympian Sir Mo Farah, who is of Somali origin, feeling “alienated”, and confidence amongst Muslims wanting to travel to the US plummeted in the immediate aftermath.
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Tharik Hussain