(Boston Globe) As President Trump’s attacks against one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress continue to reverberate, dozens of Muslims gathered in the sunlit Great Hall of the State House this week to carry a basic message to lawmakers: “American Muslims belong here, and we’re not going anywhere.”
That was how Nazia Ashraful, government affairs director for the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR-Massachusetts, encapsulated Tuesday’s mission to the 50 participants in the group’s second annual lobby day.
The civil rights group was there to advocate for a slate of Massachusetts-focused legislation, including bills to boost funding for K-12 education, establish “Medicare for All,” impose a moratorium on government use of facial recognition software, and block local and State Police officers from performing the functions of immigration officers.
