Female Muslim Immigrant Explains Why She Voted for Trump

Female Muslim Immigrant Explains Why She Voted for Trump
Feminist Muslim author Asra Nomani (C) prays with other women during a rare public mixed gender, woman-led prayer service in New York City in this 2005 file photo. The controversial expression of Muslim women's rights drew quick criticism from Muslim religious leaders in the Middle East, according to published reports. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Jack Phillips
11/13/2016
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11/13/2016

But she said that Trump isn’t a racist or an Islamaphobe. “He is insensitive at times with what he says and his proposals are tough, but they reflect a reality of concern people have about an issue that’s killing people from Orlando to Paris,” she said.

“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,' she wrote in the Post.

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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