Ok, first, just to make that clear, I consider Islam to be the

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Ok, first, just to make that clear, I consider Islam to be the currently most dangerous religion, I have not the slightest respect for this belief, it destroyed the blooming arabic civilization, and aims to destroy all other civilizations too. I am offended by women wearing burquas. I dont care about headscarfs, but I find it a symbol of oppression. I hate Islam – but I do not hate muslims. Nobody chooses where he is born and what values he is being taught.

Anyway, now, I never really considered the USA to be a civilized country. America has a long history of messing up other countries' politics, and not giving a f*ck about human lives. They are the only country to ever use a nuclear bomb, and they did it twice. They still have death penalty. They are the first country after WWII to officially introduce torture.

However, there was one thing I always appreciated about the USA: Their total commitment to freedom. In english class, when other students ranted about USA supporting holocaust deniers, I just said that the USA values freedom of speech more than we do, and I think this was the right way. I have heard stories about a woman from Iran being deported from Germany and even forced to wear a headscarf for her passport photo (because Iran would not take the woman otherwise), who then went to the USA.

That is why I was particularly shocked about the positive echo that US travel bans appeared to have in the more patriotic US media. It is not that I generally think that this kind of measurement cannot be justified, or that I knew the actual circumstances in the USA that might justify it. But still, a travel ban is something that might be necessary, but is never and should never be considered good.