Protect Students from Woke Inc.

My testimony to the School Board on June 25.

My name is Asra Nomani.

I am a former Wall Street Journal reporter who taught journalism at Georgetown University. My son is a rising senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, and we have been in Fairfax County Public Schools since kindergarten.

The №1 priority for families is returning our students to school safely. Fairfax County Public Schools and the School Board have given parents two unacceptable options for our children’s education: four days of distance learning or two days of in-school learning.

For a school system with a $3 billion budget, these options are a failure.

We are in a crisis. But, instead of coming together to prioritize education, our school board is obsessed with partisan, political activism and virtue signaling, hijacking our return to school with a divisive agenda that pits people against each other.

The School Board, our administrators and activists you will hear from tonight are diverting precious time, resources and money to renaming schools, removing mascots and indoctrinating our K-12 students with a polarizing agenda-driven curriculum, fomented by a multimillion dollar industry of consultants doling out cookie cutter, turn-key programs to activist school boards. Like Fairfax County.

Call it what it is. Woke Incorporated.

They are selling their products under buzzwords like “critical race theory,” “anti-racism pedagogy,” “cultural Marxism,” “implicit bias training” and “micro-aggression mediation.”

These are not terms that I invented. This is the language of divisive activists trying to indoctrinate our K-12 students — when we don’t even know how our kids are going to get back to school.

And, as you illustrated tonight, the Fairfax County school board has become an echo chamber for this big business of Woke Incorporated.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is a crucible for this activism. A small but aggressive group of alumni activists are hijacking our school with knee-jerk, virtue signaling solutions to increasing the number of black, Hispanic and other underrepresented groups at TJ.

Their demands include replacing the Colonial mascot, the Thomas Jefferson name and our race-blind admissions process with race-based lotteries and quotas. Their ideas have even included occupying TJ. The alumni now call the idea a “joke” but to us our children’s safety is no laughing matter.

We all agree on increasing diversity and addressing racial issues. I am a Muslim immigrant from India who learned English as a second language and ate free breakfast in school provided to children living in poverty. I am part of a socioeconomic minority as a single mother.

We disagree on solutions. We must build a pipeline to success at TJ and all schools.

Instead, our TJ principal sent our mostly immigrant families of color a letter telling us we had to check our “privilege,” another divisive rhetorical product sold by Woke Incorporated.

A TJ mother who marched for human rights in Tiananmen Square told me she feels like an outcast, “I’m having traumatic flashbacks to the Cultural Revolution in China.”

We must protect our students and families from the divisive, snake oil activism of the industry that is Woke Incorporated, bought wholesale by the Fairfax County school board. We must come together as a community to educate all of our children.

Asra Q. Nomani can be reached at asra@asranomani.com or (304) 685–2189. If you have examples of your school being hijacked by Woke Inc., please contact her.

My testimony on June 19, on “Return to School.”

My name is Asra Nomani.

I am a former Wall Street Journal reporter who taught journalism at Georgetown University. My son is a rising senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, and we have been in Fairfax County Public Schools since kindergarten. I am a long time parent volunteer.

The №1 priority for families is returning our students to school safely. However, we have a crisis at TJ, making our families, students and staff feel demoralized, unsafe, unwelcome and intimidated in an increasingly hostile environment, as we consider returning to school.

After the debacle of distance learning this spring, a small but aggressive group of alumni are now hijacking our return to school with knee-jerk, superficial, counterproductive, virtue signaling solutions to increasing the numbers of black, Hispanic and other underrepresented groups at TJ. We all agree on increasing diversity. I am part of a religious minority, a racial minority and a socioeconomic minority as a single mother. We disagree on how to achieve this. We must build a pipeline to success at TJ. And we must support our current and incoming TJ students and families.

Instead, the FCPS school board heard yesterday from a disturbing alumni network attempting to hijack TJ. They call themselves “TJ Alumni Action Group.” Many misrepresented themselves by registering as “individual.” I was on the list to speak but was not heard. When I was heard, the chair told me that the public session had ended and I could speak at a meeting on Tuesday, which I plan to do.

Here is what this alumni network did not tell you. Literally, today one action item being discussed is a call to action to occupy TJ. Yes, Occupy TJ.

This is their call to action: “…should we just take over the TJ building and refuse to let anyone else occupy it until they give in to our demands. It seems to be working well for CHAZ/CHOP.” That is the neighborhood occupied in Seattle. FCPS Security and Fairfax County Police should be immediately alerted.

Members of this group are hurling allegations of “racist” at TJ parents, students and staff, demonizing and vilifying the mostly minority immigrant families at TJ as engaging in “pay to play,” as they alleged yesterday.

Furthermore, our TJ principal is engaged too in this diversion of energy, recently sending parents a shaming letter sharing her journey as a white woman and imploring us to check our “privilege.” She ponders killing the mascot, the “Colonial,” and teaching our students “anti-racism” curriculum, as if they are walking “racists,” as the alumni allege.

Our TJ families have survived the Cultural Revolution, poverty, famine, war, communism and actual colonization. They are mostly immigrant families of color. And the white families who are there, as a racial minority, should not be demonized but also supported, as we return to school.

Do you know who is destroyed in this rush to destroy and “occupy” TJ as most of us as parents work about how to return to school safely? FCPS. TJ. Our students.

Work with us to protect TJ. Protect our students. Thank you.

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By Asra Q. Nomani

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On April 2, as Sindh High Court Judge K.K. Agha read a ruling, freeing four men convicted in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, the world witnessed a serious miscarriage of justice. In response to this ruling, outrage and calls for justice have been expressed by general publics, institutions and responsible media all over the world.

In a bold and determined act, on May 2, Ruth and Judea Pearl filed an appeal of the Sindh High Court decision with the Pakistani Supreme Court. The Pearl Project is honored to lead the legal defense effort with a simple hope of #JusticeForDanielPearl.

Yet, in the days that followed the initial judgment, defense attorneys as well as some pundits, social media influencers and certain sections of mainstream media have weighed in with worrisome narratives — ranging from factually inaccurate to downright false — about Pearl’s murder, including the findings of the Pearl Project, a multi-year investigation into the case. It is important that these problematic and misguided narratives should be called out, as they could lead to yet another betrayal of truth.

The day of the ruling, Khawaja Naveed, a defense attorney for the convicted men stood outside the Sindh High Court, a mask meant to protect him from coronavirus across his chin, and called his clients “young boys” against whom evidence was “completely fabricated,” while Pearl was “perhaps” an “undercover agent.”

Hours later, a wire report claimed that the Pearl Project concluded the “wrong men” were convicted in Pearl’s murder. And, over the next few days, various Pakistani media accounts alleged that the mastermind of the kidnapping plot, Omar Sheikh, was an innocent man caught in an international plot that had also ensnared his three co-defendants.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Omar Sheikh and his co-defendants are not “children” but grown men who have not taken responsibility for their crimes. And Daniel Pearl was no “undercover agent,” but a humble, kind, curious and bona fide journalist possessing full professional accreditation. Lest there be any further contortion of the facts, the findings of the Pearl Project established:

British-Pakistani criminal Omar Sheikh organized a team of at least two dozen men in January 2002, who trapped, kidnapped, imprisoned and ultimately murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

In secret meetings in Karachi, at locations including Student Biryani restaurant and a McDonald’s, Omar Sheikh directly recruited, employed and instructed co-conspirators Sheikh Adil, Salman Saqib and Fahad Naseem to send “sign of life” photos of Daniel Pearl in captivity, with his hands chained and a gun to his head, along with ransom notes, seeking the freeing of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, the delivery of F-16 military jets from the United States and other demands.

Co-conspirators Sheikh Adil, Salman Saqib and Fahad Naseem actively worked to electronically deliver the photos and ransom notes to journalists, in an attempt to not only terrorize Pearl’s family but also journalists and ordinary citizens around the world. They carried out Omar Sheikh’s instructions to change the ransom note to allege that Daniel Pearl was a Jewish spy, not for the CIA but for the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, increasing his value to Al Qaeda operatives in Karachi, and leading to his murder.

The Pearl Project established that there is one reason why Pearl is dead: because Omar Sheikh organized Pearl’s kidnapping. He led Pearl to slaughter. He is responsible for Pearl’s murder. Radicalized in London in the early 1990s and convicted for kidnapping in New Delhi, India, in 1994, Omar Sheikh is a hardened criminal and a danger to society.

The Pearl Project concluded that Omar Sheikh and his three co-conspirators were co-conspirators in the kidnapping for ransom plot that led to Pearl’s murder and, by Pakistani legal standards of “common intent,” they are directly and 100 percent responsible for Pearl’s murder.

The Pearl Project remains steadfast in its demand for justice for Daniel Pearl. It rejects any inaccurate, distorted, misconstrued or mis-contextualized use of its findings to report, narrate or justify, in any manner, the April 2 ruling that is a travesty of justice.

The Daniel Pearl case underscores the universal principle of an absolute need for stringent accountability and justice when a journalist is murdered. The death of any reporter, including Daniel Pearl, is a loss not only to his family and friends, but to the much wider circle of people all over the world who rely on fair and inquisitive journalists to search out the truth. Governments — and even judiciaries — may be eager to close the books on such cases, but a failure to energetically and unequivocally hold the criminals accountable only raises the risks for other journalists facing similar perils. No civil society can survive such a casualty to justice or a free press.

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Statement from Judea Pearl to be read

. at the Sit-In at Nancy Pelosi office

As President of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, and a lifelong Democrat,

I urge Speaker Nancy Pelosi to act boldly and decisively

on Rep. Ilhan Omar anti-Semitic bigotry.

Our late son, Daniel Pearl, was not an Islamophobe, nor

a foreign agent or a trader in “Benjamins”.

He was a principled American journalist, a champion of truth

and a relentless peace-seeker, who was murdered for being a Jew and a lover of Israel. I plead with Speaker Pelosi to rid the

House of Representative of a new form of bigotry, directed

again at Jews and lovers of Israel.

Words matter! And the hateful words pronounced by

Rep. Ilhan Omar will continue to haunt and poison the future of

American Jewry. However, we are concerned not merely

with the harsh consequences of those words

but with the obsessive hatred that produced them, and

the ultimate purpose for which they were enunciated —

to erode American support for the State of Israel — the miracle

that symbolizes Jewish history and Jewish aspirations.

We stand here to remind Speaker Pelosi of words

she has spoken many times in the past,

that US support for Israel is not only a

matter of mutual interest and shared values.

Americans’ support of a homeland

for the Jewish people is a MORAL IMPERATIVE,

a HISTORICAL CALLING that should not be

polluted with accusations of dual loyalty, or greed.

The Resolution passed by the House on March 9 condemns

almost every form of hate on earth, except ONE —

the anti-Zionist hatred waged against our brothers and

sisters in Israel — Six and a half million

refugees or descendants of refugees who have been

denied normalcy for the past 70 years, besieged by

hostile neighbors and confronted by daily existential threats

from Hammas, Hezbollah and Iran.

The anti-Zionist obsession that Rep. Omar now brings to

the halls of Congress aims to strip these six and a half

million people from sovereignty and abandon them, stateless,

to the mercy of genocidal neighbors.

Americans cannot allow such moral deformity

to stain the halls of their representative government.

The Democratic Party must remain a welcoming home

to the many American Jews who have entrusted their energies,

talents and dreams to this party.

We urge Speaker Pelosi to find Rep. Ilhan Omar unfit

to serve on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Respectfully,

Judea Pearl

President, Daniel Pearl Foundation

Chancellor’s Professor, University of California Los Angeles

Breaking News: Top 10 Nuggets from Women’s March 2017 IRS Filing

How much money did Women’s March Inc. make in 2017? How much did its controversial co-chairs Tamika Mallary, Carmen Perez, Linda Sarsour and Bob Bland make?

With much controversy surrounding the Women’s March, I am writing a column for Esquire magazine about how a movement dedicated to the empowerment of women imploded. If you have any leads, contact me.

In the course of my reporting, the organization’s public relations representative just shared with me the Women’s March IRS 990 filing that nonprofits must file with the federal government. The filing has a timestamp of Nov. 28, 2018, 11:53 a.m.

I know this is an issue of great interest to a lot of people, so I share the document with you here at this link with annotated comments and questions.

Link to Women’s March 2017 IRS 990 filing.

I highlight the top 10 key findings here.

Top 10 Nuggets in Women’s March 2017 IRS filing

1. Women’s March Inc. had total revenue of $2,533,074 in 2017.

2. The four “co-chairs” of the Women’s March earned a total of $261,611 in 2017.

3. Women’s March Inc. had merchandise sales of $1,166,705, or 46 percent of total revenue, in 2017.

4. Women’s March Inc. had program service revenue of $596,940, or 24 percent of total revenue, in 2017.

This was attributed to revenue from the Women’s March “annual convention.”

5. Women’s March Inc. had contributions and grants of $769,429, or 28 percent of total revenue, in 2017.

6. Women’s March Inc. had salary expenses of $703,864, with co-president Mari Lynn Foulger, the real name for “Bob Bland,” earning $73,404.

7. Co-president Tamika Mallory earned $70,570.

8. Assistant secretary Linda Sarsour earned $69,927.

9. Treasurer Carmen Perez earned $47,710.

10. Board of directors member Breanne Butler earned $26,400. Secretary Janaya Ingram earned $26,400.

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6 #Resistance Groups and the House of Soros (stay tuned for more)

#Grassroots? #AstroturfActivism?

How is billionaire George Soros connected to the #Resistance?

The day after Election Day 2016, Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour took to Twitter to issue her battlecry: #NotMyPresident. She descended that day — less than 24 hours after Donald J. Trump accepted victory as the next president of the United States of America — onto a public park in Manhattan, pumping her fist into the air and bellowing, “Not my president!

#Resistance was born. Read my Wall Street Journal opinion piece to learn more.

Opinion | George Soros's March on Washington

Over the almost past two years, #Resistance has morphed from a simple hashtag campaign into a slick, well-oiled machine with downloadable graphics for followers, press kits for the media and six-figure salaries for its leaders. They lead major public actions, such as the #EndKavanaugh protests that just had their protestors “flooding the Capitol.”

The rise of the #resistance movement begs many questions but one stands out the most for any critical mind: if you follow the money, where do you end up?

President Trump says that it leads to billionaire George Soros, a key donor to Democratic causes. After two years of investigation, my conclusion: Trump has a point. Many of the organizations in the #resistance are part of a network of organizations that Soros has supported through his philanthropy empire once called the “House of Soros” internally.

Who are the organizations behind the #resistance? I will share with you a visual guide to organizations, their leaders, activists and messaging?

Consult this guide as you follow the news.

“Birddog Nation”

http://bit.ly/WECANWIN

http://cancelkavanaugh.com

One of the questions on the form: “Please add me to the Birddog Nation activist list, so I’ll get notifications when there are elected officials or candidates in my area who need to hear from me.”

Answer: yes or no.

Are we helping to book your travel? If so, please answer the questions below. Otherwise, scroll down to click submit, and stay tuned for details!

What group do you do most of your activism with? *

Women’s March

Housing Works

CPD Action

Other:

#HouseofSoros #Resistance organizations

1. ACLU National

The ACLU is a grantee of Soros’s Open Society Foundations.

The ACLU is a “movement friend” of the Women’s March. It is a partner of the Women’s March. It filed lawsuits against the Trump administration’s travel ban.

ACLU on Twitter

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people have come from as far as Alaska, California, Hawaii, and Florida to demand that senators hear survivors and defend the integrity of our nation's highest court. Together we can #StopKavanaugh https://t.co/P63jFf2Xlb

ACLU on Twitter

Brett Kavanaugh is unfit for the Supreme Court. Period. A vote to confirm him is a vote that tells survivors their experiences can be disregarded if they inconvenience their powerful abusers. We will not forget. https://t.co/5fDHrJrecz

ACLU on Twitter

Bravery is contagious. Together we are strong enough to #StopKanavaugh

2. CPD Action

The Committee for Popular Democracy has been an Open Society grantee

Women's March on Twitter

Love and strength to our sister in the struggle, @CPDAction's @AnaMariaArchila. #BelieveSurvivors #CancelKavanaugh https://t.co/XRY1PPENWr

CPD Action on Twitter

I know this is fun for y'all" @SenBobCorker tells two survivors of Sexual assault including our own @traceyecorder. He thinks it's fun for women to share their stories of assault & rape. No Senator, we assure you it's not. #cancelkavanaugh #stopkavanaugh #believesurvivors https://t.co/UF2KXjPEMc

CPD Action on Twitter

We believe survivors. @JeffFlake does not. After all we've done, all the hurt and pain we've spoken into truth, he has still voted for Kavanaugh. We still have time to flip the vote though. #beahero Senator Flake and #cancelkavanaugh #Stopkavanauagh

3. MoveOn.org

#VOTEPROCHOICE on Twitter

LIVE NOW: We're rallying at the Supreme Court and across the country to tell senators to #BelieveSurvivors and #StopKavanaugh once and for all. https://t.co/3AzJWwZJh8

#VOTEPROCHOICE on Twitter

makes me sick to my stomach that the crowd laughed and cheered at a "joke" the president made at the expense of the woman who told her story of sexual assault. and people ask why survivors don't report.. 🤢🤢 https://t.co/6k8ce0wzm1

Robert Reich is former U.S. Labor Secretary in the Clinton administration.

MoveOn on Twitter

We're cancelling a planned six-figure digital video ad expenditure for Phil Bredesen in Tennessee due to his Kavanaugh position. And similarly will be pulling all planned campaigning on behalf of Joe Manchin in West Virginia if he votes yes. Kavanaugh is unfit for the Court.

#VOTEPROCHOICE on Twitter

THANK YOU https://t.co/yHEGEvkBUT

4. NARAL

Past or current Open Society grantee.

NARAL on Twitter

DearSenators: Are you listening? Do you care? Will you stand with the American people or will you stand with an accused sexual predator who has been clear about his intention to criminalize abortion? #StopKavanaugh

ilyse hogue on Twitter

We're all getting played, not just @JeffFlake. Will any Senator who was committed to this investigation to make a decision call this out and demand the full truth? @SenatorCollins @Sen_JoeManchin @lisamurkowski https://t.co/xoRGHbr5Vk

5. Unite for Justice

This is the coalition of many organizations that organized the #EndKavanaugh protests. At least 20 groups in the coalition have been grantees of Soros funds.

Amanda Palmer on Twitter

MY FELLOW AMERICANS. join a "unite for justice" event tomorrow (august 26th) somewhere near you. they will take our reproductive rights. https://t.co/aZguEgnjCh

6. #VoteProChoice

One of the leaders in the #endKavanaugh #resistance is #VoteProChoice.

Here are some of the organizations in the #resistance network, marching from the federal courthouse where Kavanaugh worked in Washington, D.C.

They include @MoveOn.org@CPDAction @womensmarch @UltraViolet@WeDemandJustice @ACLU@PPact @MomsRising @NationalAction@Housing Works

#VOTEPROCHOICE on Twitter

HAPPENING NOW: We're getting ready to march to #SCOTUS with @womensmarch, @CPDAction, and @housingworks for OUR COURTS! It's time #CancelKavanaugh. https://t.co/Qb37xeD5kY

#VOTEPROCHOICE on Twitter

Nothing manufactured here. This is the last gasp of the patriarchy, and we'll be #Troublemakers until it's good and gone. https://t.co/lcLcpYm8DD

#VOTEPROCHOICE on Twitter

LIVE NOW: We're rallying from Brett Kavanaugh's current courthouse to tell senators to #BelieveSurvivors and #StopKavanaugh for good. @CPDAction @womensmarch @UltraViolet @WeDemandJustice @ACLU @PPact @MomsRising @NationalAction https://t.co/7pgw6na47m

Stay tuned. More to come.

Asra Q. Nomani is a former WSJ reporter.

Here’s why this long-time liberal voted for the Republican this year

By Asra Q. Nomani

A lot is being said now about the “silent secret Trump supporters.” This is my confession — and explanation: 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.”

In the winter of 2008, as a lifelong liberal and proud daughter of West Virginia, a state born on the correct side of history on slavery, I moved to historically conservative Virginia only because the state had helped elect Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States.

But, then, for much of this past year, I have kept my electoral preference secret: I was leaning toward Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Tuesday evening, just minutes before the polls closed at Forestville Elementary School in mostly Democratic Fairfax County, I slipped between the cardboard partitions in the polling booth, a pen balanced carefully between my fingers, to mark my ballot for president, coloring in the circle beside the names of Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence.

After Hillary Clinton called Trump to concede, making him America’s president-elect, a friend on Twitter wrote a message of apology to the world, saying there are millions of Americans who don’t share Trump’s “hatred/division/ignorance.” She ended: “Ashamed of millions that do.”

That would presumably include me — but it doesn’t, and that is where the dismissal of voter concerns about Clinton led to her defeat. I most certainly reject the trifecta of “hatred/division/ignorance.” I support the Democratic Party’s position on abortion, same-sex marriage and climate change.

[Did you vote for Donald Trump? Tell us why.]

But 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.

Finally, 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. Of course, Trump’s rhetoric has been far more than indelicate and folks can have policy differences with his recommendations, but, to me, it has been exaggerated and demonized by the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, their media channels, such as Al Jazeera, and their proxies in the West, in a convenient distraction from the issue that most worries me as a human being on this earth: extremist Islam of the kind that has spilled blood from the hallways of the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai to the dance floor of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.

In mid-June, after the tragic shooting at Pulse, Trump tweeted out a message, delivered in his typical subtle style: “Is President Obama going to finally mention the words radical Islamic terrorism? If he doesn’t he should immediately resign in disgrace!”

Around then, on CNN’s “New Day,” Democratic candidate Clinton seemed to do the Obama dance, saying, “From my perspective, it matters what we do more than what we say. And it mattered we got bin Laden, not what name we called him. I have clearly said we — whether you call it radical jihadism or radical Islamism, I’m happy to say either. I think they mean the same thing.”

By mid-October, it was one Aug. 17, 2014, email from the WikiLeaks treasure trove of Clinton emails that poisoned the well for me. In it, Clinton told aide John Podesta: “We need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL,” the politically correct name for the Islamic State, “and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”

The revelations of multimillion-dollar donations to the Clinton Foundation from Qatar and Saudi Arabia killed my support for Clinton. 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.

I gently tried to express my thoughts on Twitter but the “Pantsuit revolution” was like a steamroller to any nuanced discourse. If you supported Trump, you had to be a redneck.

Days before the election, a journalist from India emailed me, asking: What are your thoughts being a Muslim in “Trump’s America”?

I wrote that 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.

What worried me the most were my concerns about the influence of theocratic Muslim dictatorships, including Qatar and Saudi Arabia, in a Hillary Clinton America. These dictatorships are no shining examples of progressive society with their failure to offer fundamental human rights and pathways to citizenship to immigrants from India, refugees from Syria and the entire class of de facto slaves that live in those dictatorships.

We have to stand up with moral courage against not just hate against Muslims, but hate by Muslims, so that everyone can live with sukhun, or peace of mind, I finished in my reflections to the journalist in India.

He didn’t get the email. I didn’t resend it, afraid of the wrath I’d receive. But, then, I voted.

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This story originally appeared in The Washington Post.

Asra Q. Nomani is a former Wall Street Journal reporter and a co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement. She can be found on Twitter at Asra Nomani

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