* Great furrowed-brows interview just now on state-run radio, World Reacts To Donald Trump’s Call To Ban Muslims Traveling To U.S. Joerg Lau, the foreign editor for Die Zeit in Berlin, explains a few things. Why, Germany is taking in almost a million migrants this year, and we expect America to do its fair share. Instead, Trump’s Islamophobic remarks could start these perfectly nice Muslims down the road to alienation. NPR’s reporter seems to understand the point — the recent troubles really are Trump’s fault.
Continuing the irony-free discussion, Mr. Lau wistfully points out that in Germany, Trump would have been arrested by now on a charge of Incitement. Obviously, the U.S. has much to learn from its ally about the free exchange of ideas.
And for completeness’ sake, listeners are treated to an interview of Bloomberg reporter Zainab Fattah in Dubai. She points out that Trump’s ideas are still far more liberal and tolerant than the policies of any Islamic nation Trump is a hateful Islamophobe.
