Euphemisms bite the dust

Readers of the latest judicial adventures of President Trump’s impending travel ban might have noticed that The Chronicle’s accounts — by this writer, anyway — no longer refer to the six nations targeted for U.S. entry bans as “predominantly Muslim” or “Muslim-majority.” A little fact-checking found that those terms aren’t so much inaccurate as seriously understated. According to a January 2011 Pew Research report, Syria’s population was about 90 percent Muslim and 10 percent Christian. The numbers for the other nations covered by the executive order were much higher: Libya, 96.6 percent Muslim; Sudan, 97 percent; Somalia, 98.9 percent; Yemen, 99 percent, and Iran, 99.7 percent. Iraq, which was named