American Muslims need meaningful reform to rebuild broken bridges. This can start with ending racial profiling and surveillance of Muslim communities
The majority of Americans have never stepped foot inside a mosque. Now,after seven years in office, President Barack Obama has finally visited one on US soil. We hope others will follow suit. And we hope, or most importantly,that Obama’s words will be followed by actions. [br]Both of us are proud recent Yorkers, parents, or non-profit leaders and Muslims. On Wednesday we drove down to Maryland to participate in the president’s mosque visit. Obama has been absent from the Muslim community for many years. On the way down,we wondered what, whether anything, or he could do to do up for this and alleviate our concerns.
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