American Muslims Leaders and Activists Respond to a Trump Presidency

American Muslims Leaders and Activists Respond to a Trump Presidency November 13, 2016

Image source: KARAMAH: Muslim Women for Human Rights
Image source: KARAMAH: Muslim Women for Human Rights

Aisha Al-Adawiya

As we move ahead, however, some of our sisters and brothers remind us that Islamophobia is not the only social ill that we must collectively confront. Indeed, the election results affirmed, for many, a pre-existing political belief that despite Obama’s presidency, we are far from a post-racial society and anti-Muslim bigotry is but one branch on that tree bearing poisonous fruit. Sister Aisha, founder and chairperson of Women in Islam, asserts,

​In the wake of the ascension of Donald Trump to the office of the president of the United States, we find ourselves in the grip of shock and awe. In this bone-chilling climate, we need to draw upon our history​ as a nation. In doing so, we come to realize the forces that produced the Donald Trump phenomenon are not new. In fact, they are of the very stuff upon which our country is built.

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