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The Hateful vs. The Kind Fri Feb 5, 2021 A very big family in a very small house: my childhood home. The youngest of six, fights terrified me. Four older brothers, all over six feet, athletes, hunters, trappers, and archers. When the borscht hit the fan, crimson spattered the walls. Smaller and softer than they, less angry, eager to please, I shuddered. What sparked these swift, hard fists, these over-the-top curses? We had food, shelter, chicken on Sunday, school, church, friends, movies; life was good. I was just a lump of dough, praying for quiet to return. I m feeling the same fear again, of witnessing irrational hostility and fraternal violence, the despair that I am a bystander who has no power to influence events that terrify and depress me. ....
As the results of the American presidential election rolled in on November 4, a young Sudanese couple sat up through the night in their small town south of Khartoum, eyes glued to the television as state tallies were declared, watching anxiously. They had a lot riding on the outcome. A year earlier, Monzir Hashim had won the state department’s annual lottery to obtain a green card for the US only to learn that President Donald Trump, in his latest iteration of the “Muslim ban”, had barred Sudanese citizens from immigrating to the US. The election seemed to offer a second chance, and when Trump was eventually declared to have lost the vote, Hashim and his wife, Alaa Jamal, hugged with joy and erupted in wedding-style ululations. ....
Barred From U.S. Under Trump, Muslims Exult in Bidenâs Open Door Few foreigners welcomed President Bidenâs election victory as enthusiastically as the tens of thousands of Muslims who have been locked out of the United States for the past four years. A protest in New York in 2017 in opposition to President Donald J. Trumpâs executive order preventing people from several majority Muslim countries from entering the country.Credit.Victor J. Blue for The New York Times Jan. 23, 2021 NAIROBI, Kenya â As the results of the American presidential election rolled in on Nov. 4, a young Sudanese couple sat up through the night in their small town south of Khartoum, eyes glued to the television as state tallies were declared, watching anxiously. They had a lot riding on the outcome. ....