Trump’s “Muslim ban” is a huge gift to ISIS

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ISIS says the US is at war with Islam. Trump just helped them make their case.
Updated by Jennifer Williams@jenn_ruthjennifer@vox.com Jan 29, 2017, 3:03pm EST

Excerpt:

Trump’s strategy to counter ISIS, which he laid out in a [Presidential Memorandum Plan to Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria] published on the White House website on Saturday [January 28], emphasizes the need to use “public diplomacy, information operations, and cyber strategies to isolate and delegitimize ISIS and its radical Islamist ideology.”

Giving ISIS their biggest propaganda win of the last five years is a strange way to go about doing that. ...

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