A day after Democratic convention speakers were criticized for failing to mention the Islamic State, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar focused on ISIS in the context of human trafficking. She added that Hillary Clinton would enable the country to “get our own house in order.”
“She sees a world where girls are not captured and sold but are fearless and bold, where they lead, not follow,” Klobuchar told delegates to the convention. “Where when someone tells a young woman, ‘You fight like a girl,’ her answer is, ‘Yes, I do. And I’m proud to be that girl!'”
“As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton took the international report on trafficking, the one nations use to improve their prosecutions, and she made our country accountable,” Klobuchar said. “She added the United States to that list. Because she knows that if we are going to be a beacon for the world, then we have to get our own house in order.
“As long as ISIS is selling girls for $165, and parents in Nigeria are left with nothing but bows and arrows to chase the terrorists who steal their daughters in the middle of the night, we will never have a just and good world,” she added. “Because when women are held back, democracies falter. When women are bound and treated as sex slaves, tyrants rule.”
“Opportunity for women is not a sign of a country’s weakness, it is a sign of a nation’s strength,” Klobuchar said. “Elevating women across the world so they’re treated with dignity and respect [is] what Hillary Clinton will do.
“And if that means playing the woman card, Donald Trump, let me tell you: there are hundreds of millions of women in this world who are ready to play that card. And in the United States of America, it’s called the voting card,” Klobuchar said.
Critics on Tuesday began to note the absence of any mention of ISIS at the convention. None of 61 speakers to appear on Monday mentioned the terrorist organization, though several did on the second day. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the Republican nominee for vice president, said on Tuesday that it was “extraordinary” and promised Trump would stand in contrast by naming ISIS “without apology.”
