HOUSTON — Mohamed Sanu did not want to talk about the thing we wanted him to talk about. He wanted to talk about the New England Patriots instead of self-proclaimed patriots, his profession instead of his religion, and of course, this was totally sensible. This is the biggest week of Sanu’s professional life. He is here to play football. But then, it’s been a strange week.
Sanu is an Atlanta Falcon. He is also a Muslim. And the President of the United States, who once called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on,” just announced a ban on visas for refugees and people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, which was widely interpreted as an attempt to fulfill his own campaign promise.