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| US diplomats around the world have condemned Donald Trump's 'Muslim ban' | |
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| Dozens of US diplomats foreign service officials around the world - outraged over Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban - have voiced their opposition to the president in a rare letter of protest. | Dozens of US diplomats foreign service officials around the world - outraged over Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban - have voiced their opposition to the president in a rare letter of protest. |
| A draft of the letter, a so-called Dissent Channel Memo, has been circulating among those official concerned that Mr Trump’s executive order, is not only contrary to American values, but will hamper counterterrorism efforts. | |
| “This ban ... will not achieve its stated aim to protect the American people from terrorist attacks by foreign nationals admitted to the United States,” says the draft, obtained by lawfareblog.com. | |
| Rather, it said the order, that suspends travel to the US for people from seven predominantly Muslim countries will, expand anti-American sentiment and “immediately sour relations” with key allies, particularly many of the countries whose citizens are now affected. | |
| The State Department’s Dissent Channel is a means for State Department employees to confidentially express policy disagreement. It was created in 1971 as a response to concerns within the Department over the government’s handling of the Vietnam War. | |
| Mr Trump’s Executive Order, which also suspended the country’s entire refugee programme for four months, has been marked by widespread protests across the nation, focussing on the airports where dozens of people were over the weekend detained and questioned. The countries affected were Syria,Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Iran, Libya and Sudan. | |
| The governments of those largely Muslim countries see the White House move as an attack on Islam. By “alienating” such allies, the US government will lose access to valuable intelligence and counterterrorism resources, the draft said. | |
| It also said that Mr Trump's “knee jerk” executive order was based on misguided notions about terrorism in the United States. |