EDITORIAL: Trump, Modi use state visit for own political ends
Meeting offers little substance as US president ends tour of India without major agreements
US President Donald Trump’s state visit to India these past few days is, visually at least, incongruous. Not only because Trump is a lump of a man against the ascetic image of his host, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but also because of long-standing trade disputes between the two countries.
But, there is more between the two men than meets the eye. For a start, there is their attitude towards Muslims and the religion of Islam. Trump has taken tough action over his three years as president that show his antipathy towards Muslims almost to the point of being Islamophobic. His list of countries whose citizens are totally unwelcome in the US is almost exclusively those with Muslim majorities...
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