Peter Thiel: Ban is not religious test

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Apple CEO Tim Cook, right, and PayPal founder Peter Thiel, center, listen as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016. (Photo: USA TODAY)

Jefferson Graham , USA TODAY
Published 9:22 p.m. ET Jan. 28, 2017 | Updated 5 hours ago

LOS ANGELES — Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor who co-founded PayPal and contributed $1.25 million to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, added his two cents to the new refugee ban Saturday.

The tech industry has been outspokenly against it, with statements flooding the Internet Saturday from Google, Microsoft, Uber, Airbnb, Tesla, Apple and other companies.

Thiel, who rarely gives interviews and sits on the board of directors of Facebook, released a statement from his spokesman Jeremiah Hall. "Peter doesn't support a religious test, and the administration has not imposed one."

The order calls for halting admission of Syrian refugees indefinitely and banning immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S., a move Trump says will make America safer from terrorism. Civil rights groups have condemned the order as illegally targeting people on the basis of religion, and the ACLU had already filed suit to block Trump's ban.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/01/28/peter-thiel-joins-tech-execs-refugee-ban/97202584/

[HopeAgain]

1. Rich doesn't preclude stupid. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Christians aren't banned.

Thiel is blind and/or stupid and/or lying.

[Angry Dragon]

10. I vote for all three

[RelativelyJones]

3. Thiel is the purest example of where libertarianism and fascism meet.

Almost more dangerous than outright fascism because you can lose time trying to sort it out.

[starshine00]

9. I agree.

He is a piece of work.

[DetlefK]

4. Now I understand. It's a Muslim-ban where the border-agents don't check whether somebody is muslim.

[WePurrsevere]

5. Apparently he missed (or choses to ignore) this...

When you "prioritize" one religion over any other it's basically a religious test and illegal (notvto mention flat out wrong in America.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/politics/trump-christian-refugees/

[Gothmog]

6. Theil is wrong-this is a religious test

[C_U_L8R]

7. Of course it's not a test

It's a ban.

[irisblue]

8. if I want religious instruction, a rich man would not be who I look to

Camel & needle thing.

[Angry Dragon]

11. LOL