Are there muslims in the white house

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Facebook is quietly buying up the metaverse By Peter Kafka. Sign up for the newsletter Sign up for The Weeds Get our essential policy newsletter delivered Fridays. Give Give. As President, he will: protect Muslim-American constitutional and civil rights; honor the diversity of Muslim-American communities; ensure adequate healthcare; create a safe learning environment; rebuild our economy with a more resilient, more inclusive middle class; and make communities safer.

Prohibiting Muslims from entering the country is morally wrong, and there is no intelligence or evidence that suggests it makes our nation more secure. It is yet another abuse of power by the Trump Administration designed to target primarily black and brown immigrants. Religious freedom is a foundational principle of this country.

Protecting the religious freedom of Muslim-Americans is vital to protecting that right for us all and ensuring that America sets a positive example for the rest of the world. Joe will also ensure that all Americans will be treated with the rights and dignity that they are guaranteed under our Constitution.

These are only the hate crimes that are reported. As President, Joe will directly address the rise in hateful attacks, fix long-standing issues with how the government reports and deals with hate crimes, and enact legislation prohibiting someone convicted of a hate crime from purchasing or possessing a firearm.

Joe will order his Justice Department to focus additional resources to combat religion-based hate crimes and to confront white nationalist terrorism. The diversity of Muslim-American communities and their contributions to our nation are far too often overshadowed by forces of Islamophobia, especially when those in positions of power actively fan the flames of hate and bigotry.

He will start with restoring the White House Eid celebration and filling the position of Muslim-American Liaison in the White House Office of Public Engagement, both eliminated by Donald Trump, to ensure a wide range of Muslim-American voices are heard within his administration. Joe appointed a Senior Advisor for Muslim Engagement on his presidential campaign and will build on that by ensuring a Biden Administration reflects the diversity of our nation across all federal agencies.

As President, Joe will also restore American leadership, including through renewed global engagement and appointing a Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. It was a victory years in the making. Because of Obamacare, more than million people — including many Muslim-Americans — no longer have to worry that an insurance company will deny coverage or charge higher premiums to individuals with a pre-existing condition.

Yet, at this moment, Donald Trump is in court trying to have the Affordable Care Act declared unconstitutional and take away these protections for pre-existing conditions. Joe has a plan to build on the Affordable Care Act by giving Americans more choice, reducing health care costs, and making our health care system less complex to navigate.

Whether someone is covered through their employer, buying insurance on their own, or going without coverage altogether, the Biden Plan will give Americans the choice to purchase a public health insurance option like Medicare, which will reduce costs and improve the efficacy and quality of care. EU to widen sanctions against Belarus amid migrant crisis. Biden to host Canada, Mexico leaders next week. Biden, ex-presidents join together for Colin Powell's funeral.

We use cookies in a limited and restricted manner for specific purposes. I told him that I hoped that they and those in Congress were prepared to take responsibility for all the consequences that would attend their decisions. My whole life and everything I have learned proves that facile statement wrong.

My parents immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh in and strove to create opportunities for their children born in the states. My mother worked as a cashier, later starting her own daycare business.

My father spent late nights working at Bank of America, and was eventually promoted to assistant vice president at one of its headquarters. My father began pursuing his Ph. I was 12 when I started wearing a hijab. It was encouraged in my family, but it was always my choice.

It was a matter of faith, identity, and resilience for me. On top of my shock, horror, and heartbreak, I had to deal with the fear some kids suddenly felt towards me. I was glared at, cursed at, and spat at in public and in school. I never intended to work in government. I was among those who assumed the government was inherently corrupt and ineffective.

Working in the Obama White House proved me wrong. I had interned there during my junior year, reading letters and taking calls from constituents at the Office of Presidential Correspondence. It felt surreal——here I was, a year-old American Muslim woman from Maryland who had been mocked and called names for covering my hair, working for the president of the United States.

In , I moved to the West Wing to join the Office of Public Engagement, where I worked with various communities, including American Muslims, on domestic issues such as health care.