Donald Trump’s ban embeds a new normal

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"When the leader of the free world decides to play this sort of game, it has wide-ranging repercussions. It normalises sectarianism at the highest possible levels, whether in the United States or in the wider West. And, lest we forget, among extremists, of the Islamist variety or otherwise. Mr Trump has just regularised that discourse, in a way that no one else could."