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Omar Elhaj

The Muslim community yearns to feel that our lives are valued and that when members in our community are massacred, people might take a moment during their day to acknowledge it.

ELHAJ & FAWAZ: U.Va. Should do more to value Muslim lives

By Omar Elhaj and Rawda Fawaz | March 24, 2019

The administration must treat major attacks on the Muslim community in a similar fashion to the way they treat other terrorist attacks.

President Trump’s Muslim Ban, recently upheld by the Supreme Court, eliminates that possibility for any person from Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Yemen or Somalia to come to the United States, just as my father did.

ELHAJ: Islamophobia is everywhere — it’s our responsibility to recognize it

By Omar Elhaj | July 5, 2018

We can’t ignore Islamophobia, whether it happens at U.Va., on TV or in government.

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