Ryan Harris knew the time for silence ended more than a year ago, when Donald Trump, then the leading Republican presidential candidate, called for all Muslims to be banned from entering the United States.
The conversation was necessary, Harris believed. It was then and is especially now, as Trump, in his first week in office, turned to his call into reality Saturday by signing an executive order that suspended the entry of all refugees to the U.S. for 120 days and banned Syrian refugees indefinitely, blocked entry for 90 days for citizens of seven countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen), prohibited green-card holders from re-entering the U.