Tag: Muslim
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Arab and Muslim leaders risk blowback for endorsing Harris
Last month, Mohammed Hassan, a longtime city councilor in Hamtramck, Michigan, the only Muslim-majority city in the country, got a call from someone with Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign asking him what they needed to do to win back disaffected Michigan Muslims. “I shouted at them. I shouted, really, I said, ‘You guys are not doing…
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Muslim faith leaders endorse Kamala Harris
A group of imams endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in an open letter shared first with NBC News on Sunday, a critical boost as she steps up her efforts to win back disaffected Muslim voters amid the Israel-Hamas war. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, has faced widespread anger from Muslim and Arab voters over the…
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Kamala Harris meets with leaders from Muslim and Arab American communities
Vice President Kamala Harris met with leaders from the Muslim and Arab American community ahead of her campaign rally in Flint, Michigan, on Friday, according to a campaign official. During Friday’s meeting, Harris heard leaders’ perspectives on the election, as well as the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, the campaign official said. The vice president…
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Tim Walz makes direct appeal to conflicted Muslim voters
Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz addressed a Democratic Muslim voter group Thursday night as the Harris campaign works to engage a group of voters who threaten to defect in large numbers over the Biden administration’s handling of the deteriorating situation in the Middle East. The virtual event, organized by Emgage Action, which endorsed Harris last…
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Muslim group endorses Harris despite opposition to her Gaza policy
One of the nation’s largest Muslim political groups endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday despite fierce opposition to her Middle East policy, saying that stopping former President Donald Trump is paramount. “We feel it’s our obligation to speak truthfully to our communities as they grapple with perhaps the most difficult electoral choice they’ve ever…