On his radio program today, the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer once again voiced his support for Donald Trump’s call to ban all Muslims from entering the country, likening it to imposing a travel ban during the height of last year’s Ebola outbreak.
“We have got to suspend Islamic immigration,” Fischer said, “until we can figure out how to stop this toxic poison coming into this country. We’re not saying all Muslims are carriers of this toxic poison, but the problem is we don’t know who is a carrier and who is not. It’s like the Ebola virus. Remember when the Ebola virus hit? We simply banned travel from any country where there was an Ebola outbreak. We just said we cannot take the risk. Well, Islam is the Ebola virus of culture.”
Of course, Fischer’s analogy might work better if the U.S. had actually imposed such a travel ban, but that never happened. Instead, the U.S. simply required travelers from affected West African countries to fly into one of five airports where enhanced screening Ebola protocols had been put into place.
