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Anasie Tayyen
Anasie Tayyen, a journalist, mother and an active member of the metro Detroit Muslim American community, writes in Metro Times about the pressure on the Muslim community to publicly condemn acts of terrorism by ISIS.
You see, I’m a Muslim American and every time a person who claims to practice Islam carries out an act of violence, it’s also an attack on who I am and I feel pressure to disavow their actions on behalf of my faith and my community.
She goes on to write:
Now I ask you, white America. Do you feel guilty because a minority percentage of people from your race voted for someone who wants to round up my family, my children, and myself like cattle?
Do you feel guilty that nearly half of you voted for someone who is supported by the Ku Klux Klan? Do you feel guilty that they voted for a person who mocks and insults African Americans, Latinos, LGBTQ people, and the disabled? Do they guilty about voting for a person who boasts about sexually assaulting women?
Why are you so quiet, white America? I don’t hear your outcry. I don’t see your condemnations.
Shouldn’t every major American church and organization send out a press release condemning the outcome of this election?
That’s what we expect from Muslim America when extremists act.
