Even the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a group of 57 nations that considers itself the collective voice of the Muslim world, kept quiet. Leaders in Iran and Iraq, two of the countries targeted by Trump’s order, issued furious denunciations Sunday and vowed to take retaliatory measures. We cannot allow this horror to continue!”In fact, a majority of the Islamic State’s victims have been Muslims, many of them shot, burned or beheaded. In his order Friday, whose stated aim is to keep extremists out of the United States, Trump invoked the Sept. 11 attacks three times. Pakistan, another country whose citizens have carried out attacks in the United States, also ducked Trump’s list.

Source: National Post January 30, 2017 16:54 UTC