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kpete

(71,901 posts)
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 12:02 PM Feb 2017

"I Was a Muslim in Trump's White House. I lasted eight days."




In 2011, I was hired, straight out of college, to work at the White House and eventually the National Security Council. My job there was to promote and protect the best of what my country stands for. I am a hijab-wearing Muslim woman––I was the only hijabi in the West Wing––and the Obama administration always made me feel welcome and included.


Like most of my fellow American Muslims, I spent much of 2016 watching with consternation as Donald Trump vilified our community. Despite this––or because of it––I thought I should try to stay on the NSC staff during the Trump Administration, in order to give the new president and his aides, a more nuanced view of Islam, and of America's Muslim citizens.

I lasted eight days.

When Trump issued a ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries and all Syrian refugees, I knew I could no longer stay and work for an administration that saw me and people like me not as fellow citizens, but as a threat.


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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/rumana-ahmed-trump/517521/?utm_source=twb
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"I Was a Muslim in Trump's White House. I lasted eight days." (Original Post) kpete Feb 2017 OP
Trump has yet to mention the terrorist acts against Muslims in Canada and yet to say a word Fred Sanders Feb 2017 #1
Great story-this lady is a good American and cares about our country Gothmog Feb 2017 #2

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. Trump has yet to mention the terrorist acts against Muslims in Canada and yet to say a word
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 12:09 PM
Feb 2017

about the explosion of anti-Muslim attacks and rhetoric in America.

T. was forced to say something about anti-Jewish rhetoric and threats, so when will he be forced to say the same thing about Muslims?

Although reading slowly from a prepared text using a finger to point to each reluctantly stated word on his Jewish statement was a ungenuine as it gets.

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