My story in this election year isn’t that different from other American Muslim stories. My kids had seen Donald Trump on television spouting his plan to ban Muslims. One of my twin boys, Yonas, came to me and said “Mama, where will we go if Donald Trump wins? I will…
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Enough time has passed since Ghazala and Khizr Khan’s moving appearance at the Democratic National Convention that some people may have forgotten about them. They are the grieving parents of Captain Humayun Khan, an American Muslim war hero who gave up his life in Iraq to save his unit from a…
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This presidential election season we’ve paid much attention to the anti-Muslim ideas some presidential candidates like Donald Trump spew — and rightfully so. Most political candidates would never dare make such utterances about any other religious minority group. Still, in the midst of the vitriol and alarming political rhetoric, an…
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