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National — November 14, 2016   

American Muslim On Why She Voted For Trump

Original article by Asra Q. Nomani published in the Washington Post on 11/10/2016

Photo Credit: Washington Post
Photo Credit: Washington Post

In this op-ed for Washington Post, Asra Q. Nomani (former Wall Street Journal reporter and co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement) has a confession to publically make – she voted for Trump.

Here are some snippets from her op-ed:

“… I , a 51-year-old, a Muslim, an immigrant woman “of color” — am one of those silent voters for Donald Trump. And I’m not a ‘bigot,’ ‘racist,’ ‘chauvinist’ or’white supremacist,’ as Trump voters are being called, nor part of some ‘whitelash.’”

“… I am a single mother who can’t afford health insurance under Obamacare. The president’s mortgage-loan modification program, “HOPE NOW,” didn’t help me. Tuesday, I drove into Virginia from my hometown of Morgantown, W.Va., where I see rural America and ordinary Americans, like me, still struggling to make ends meet, after eight years of the Obama administration.’

“… Yes, I want equal pay. No, I reject Trump’s “locker room” banter, the idea of a “wall” between the United States and Mexico and a plan to “ban” Muslims. But I trust the United States and don’t buy the political hyperbole — agenda-driven identity politics of its own — that demonized Trump and his supporters.”

“…. as a liberal Muslim who has experienced, first-hand, Islamic extremism in this world, I have been opposed to the decision by President Obama and the Democratic Party to tap dance around the “Islam” in Islamic State.”

“… as a child of India, arriving in the United States at the age of 4 in the summer of 1969, I have absolutely no fears about being a Muslim in a “Trump America.” The checks and balances in America and our rich history of social justice and civil rights will never allow the fear-mongering that has been attached to candidate Trump’s rhetoric to come to fruition.”

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