© Marwan Ibrahim/AFPDisplaced Iraqis are seen on December 12, 2016 in Maktab Al-Khaled area, 30 kms west of Kirkuk, after fleeing the town of Hawija due to the ongoing fighting between Iraqi forces and jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) group.
A bit of a no-brainer, eh? It has to be the second answer, surely.
Well, you'd think so, but for some it seems, the first option is far worse than the latter.
How else to explain that large sections of the Western liberal-left seem to be more incensed by Donald Trump's ban on visitors from some Muslim countries (unjust though it is) than they were by the war which destroyed Libya, a country that had the highest living standards in Africa. In their anti-Trump crusade, some 'progressives' appear perfectly happy to link arms and sing 'Kumbaya' with the serial warmongers who unleashed the carnage which caused the refugee crisis in the first place?
Trump's executive order has caused a furious liberal backlash which Obama's backing of jihadist death squads in Syria never did. It has led to widespread protests in the US and UK. Over 1.7 million people have signed a petition calling for the State visit of the American president to the UK to be called off. In the House of Commons on Monday, Trump was called a fascist and likened to Hitler and Mussolini, while outside Downing Street angry demonstrators shouted 'Donald Trump has got to go!' Parliamentary sketch writer Quentin Letts said the eyes of politician Yvette Cooper were "bulging so much she could have gone to a fancy dress party as Marty Feldman."
Comment: See also: Islamic Holocaust: Western wars have killed AT LEAST 4 million Muslims since 1990