How Trump’s travel ban uses Muslim women as pawns

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Remember when rescuing women from the violence of radical Islam was used by Laura Bush as a reason for U.S. troops to go to war to fight terrorism abroad?


Lost among the outrage over Trump’s revised travel ban, which was at least temporarily blocked by court actions Wednesday, is a particularly problematic clause that supposedly targets violence against women.

Sadly, it also bears repeating that violence against women is not solely an Islamic problem, nor is it a problem of black and brown countries. It is a global problem, and the United States is no exception*.

That Trump, who bragged about forcibly groping women during his reality TV days, would present himself as a protector of women from violence is insidious enough. But from a policy level, Trump’s cynical use of violence against women in his immigration order is even more hypocritical, considering that his administration is reportedly planning to gut the very programs that would assist women who are victims of domestic violence.

@DiscordTiger Said

Supposedly protecting women has been used by the right.

It's a bunch of motherf***ing bulls*** to be discriminatory a*****es. They don't really care.

It's not about protecting women it's about punishing Muslims, Mexicans, and trans people.

It's talking out their a** while ending actual laws to protect women and defunding programs that help.