Politics NewsTaco March 8, 2016

Donald Trump’s Nightmare Voter: Muslim and Latino!

*The one big take-away? That as Trump’s anti-Latino and anti-Muslim rhetoric intensifies, so does Latino and muslim grassroots activism. VL

the daily beast 150 womenBy Dean Obeidallah, The Daily Beast (4.3 minute read)

Think your life is challenging? Then try being both Muslim and Latino as Donald Trump has ginned up the hate against both communities during his campaign.

“My first thought was, ‘why does Trump hate me so much?’” Juan Galvin, a Latino Muslim American community activist in Texas explained to me. Galvin added painfully, “I’m the perfect embodiment of all he is demonizing: I’m a Mexican-American Muslim.”

To Galvin’s point, on Saturday in Wichita, Kansas, Latino and Muslim groups were both ejected from a Trump rally.

I bet some reading this are stunned to hear about Latino Muslims. “Aren’t Muslims all Arabs or South Asian?” many of you are probably mumbling to yourselves. Actually Muslims, especially in the United States, come in all different races and ethnicities. The largest group of American Muslims are African American (one third of the Muslim community.) And Latinos are reportedly the fastest growing group in the Muslim American community. In fact, in January, a momentous event occurred in Houston with the opening of “Islam in Spanish,” a first of its kind, state of the art community center catering to the Muslim Latino community that even offers Friday Muslim prayer sermons in Spanish. (Trump’s white supremacist supporters must be going crazy upon hearing there are black and Latino Muslims.)

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