As the sun set in Dearborn, Michigan — a city on Detroit’s western border that is often called the “capital of Arab America” — the sense of urgency to elect Abdul El-Sayed to the U.S. Senate was becoming palpable on an unseasonably warm November election day. The lines of hijab-wearing women and curly-haired young men at the polling stations on November 3 kept growing longer.
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Abdul El-Sayed walloped his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, in Michigan on Tuesday, marking a massive triumph over the strategy of flat-out Islamophobic bigotry that Donald Trump, the GOP, and even many liberals embraced in the months of fierce campaigning against the progressive pro-Palestine senator-elect. “They went all in on one of the ugliest campaigns we’ve seen in our lifetimes,”…
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President Donald Trump suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), a U.S. citizen, should not have constitutional rights because of where she’s from in racist remarks at a rally this week. “She was from Somalia and she came over and right away she started opening her mouth, ‘I have constitutional rights,’” Trump said mockingly, in the middle of a three-and-a-half minute rant about Omar in…
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The Trump administration bragged about reductions in legal immigration from majority-Muslim countries in a post on social media on Tuesday, touting its discriminatory and white supremacist policies as it moves to increase immigration from white populations. Sharing information from an analysis by libertarian think tank Cato Institute, the White House posted a graph showing that legal…
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Far right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his cabinet have voted to designate the U.S.’s leading Muslim civil rights group as a “domestic terrorist organization,” threatening to shutter and impose severe penalties on the group and its state affiliate simply to serve the GOP’s political crusades, critics said. The 427-page document recommending “terrorist” designations for the Council on…
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For 25 years, the US ran a parallel legal system largely for Muslims. It now reaches immigrants and the left. Less than two weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks, President George W. Bush told Congress that the war on terror “begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there.” Twenty-five years later, his line reads as a confession: the war on terror was designed to have no borders and no…
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