(Middle East Eye) Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar along with other prominent Muslim Americans have called for high voter turnout from their community to push back against bigotry and defeat President Donald Trump in next month’s election.
Speaking at a virtual town hall meeting with Muslim officials and advocates hosted by Senator Bernie Sanders late on Tuesday, Tlaib said US Muslims will “out-work” Trump’s “hate,” recalling how protesters flooded airports across the country after the president announced his ban on several Muslim-majority countries in 2017.
“Not only did we go in masses to the airport, we’re going to go in masses to the voting booth. And I’m calling on our Muslims across the country to know that we have to take up the man who birthed the Muslim ban,” Tlaib said. “We have to make sure we out-vote the hate.”
