The founder of the well-liked US-based online magazine for Muslim women talks about racism,Charlottesville and fighting Islamophobia in the wake of TrumpAmani Al-Khatahtbeh remembers the day Donald Trump first began talking about a Muslim ban. “It was like a bombshell,” she says. “All of a sudden it was like this original level of tension, or of fear,of weird socially acceptable racism again, out in the open.”Al-Khatahtbeh is no stranger to the experience of racism. Like all Muslim women – particularly Muslim women who wear a headscarf – she’s found herself a target in the heightened climate of Islamophobia and racism in the contemporary United States.
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Source: theguardian.com