US Muslim sue Trump over fear mongering travel ban

US Muslim leaders filed suit against President Donald Trump over an immigration order that they said was a "fear-mongering" attempt at keeping members of their religion out of the country.

Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, joined 26 others as plaintiffs in the lawsuit alleging that Trump's temporary ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries was in fact a "Muslim exclusion order" that violates the US



constitution's religious freedom protections.

Trump's executive order will lead to "the mass expulsion" of both immigrant and non-immigrant Muslims, the suit, filed in the district court in Alexandria, Virginia, alleged.Lawyers said the order violates the US Constitution's protections of religious freedoms and the "establishment clause," which bans the government from making laws that favor or discriminate against specific religions.