The authors have fallen for the "travel ban for Muslim-majority countries" narrative. Note that the ban does not apply to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and a whole host of other "Muslim-majority" countries. Rather, the ban is directed at five specific failed states (plus Iran) that happen to be Muslim-majority.

Why those specific countries? Without access to the in-depth intelligence briefings, I would assume that the reason is that you don't know who controls the "official" documentation apparatus, making the official documents from those countries suspect. For example, is the holder of a Libyan passport who that passport says that person is, or is it someone who the faction controlling the passport equipment wants that person to be? You just can't know.

We take document control for granted in the West. The same can't be said for war-torn, shattered countries.

Thoughts?