The Trump Hurricane

U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration ban against seven Muslim-majority countries has shaken up the whole world. Yet his anti-immigrant and Islamophobic policy has only exposed the already existing and deep-rooted polarity in the world.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have rushed to airports and squares upon Trump's executive order. U.S.'s biggest technology giants such as Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook have drafted a letter against the ban. Trump's sympathizer, right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos was not let into one of U.S.'s most established universities, Berkeley, last Wednesday. The campus witnessed its biggest demonstrations since the Vietnam War. 

Moreover, not only Middle Eastern countries, but also the European Union and its members have raised their voice. More than 1 million Britons signed an online petition initiated by Britain's main opposition party, the Labour Party, calling for Trump's U.K. state visit to be put on hold.

Trump has underlined the interregnum period we are going through. On the one hand we are living in a globalized world where trade and information flow are integrated, yet on the other hand far-right, ultra-nationalist, xenophobic and Islamophobic masses are flourishing. And this very moment what we are going through only reveals the clash of these two different structures, movements.

Trump's policy has also exposed another factor: The more he elbows the Muslims aside, the more Muslims and Islam come to the forefront. Banners saying "We are all Muslims" have filled the streets around the world. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright even stated on her Twitter account that she "stands ready to register as Muslim."

Therefore Muslims, who have been perceived as...