(JNS) Since the suicide attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Muslim American voices like Zainab Zeb Khan’s “have been bullied into silence,” the founder of the Muslim American Leadership Alliance told an audience in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Monday.
“I call this coerced cohesion. If we dare to speak out against extremism, against antisemitism, against violence in our own communities, if we dare to do that, we are called traitors, bigots, Islamophobes,” Khan added. “The word ‘Zionist’ is spit at us as if it’s some sort of slur.”
Khan was one of seven speakers on a panel that ran for more than an hour at the Saban Theater after a screening of former Meta executive Sheryl Sandberg’s documentary “Screams Before Silence,” which is about the sexual violence that Hamas committed during its Oct. 7 terror attack.
