Executive Director, American Society for Muslim Advancement
+ READ ARTICLE“We had been shut out from this tragedy for almost 10 years. And then when we tried to do something that was a center of healing and a center of openness to all, people said, ‘No, this is not your tragedy. You’re not going to do this here. This is not your country.’ And that hurt. That hurt for the first time, because I had never experienced discrimination firsthand.”