It's pretty poor as an effort if that's what it was meant to be. At least 70% of the World's Muslim population aren't banned.
http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/muslims/pf_15-04-02_proje...
I'm not even a USian but I find myself posting on these threads because otherwise-rational people are posting irrational, inaccurate statements.
We wouldn't accept people saying 'withdrawing FTP access for kernel.org is a ban on FTP!!!'. So why don't we extend that rationality to other domains?