Muslim women broadcast their strength with #CanYouHearUsNow
Members of the human rights group Karamah supporting the #CanYouHearUsNow Twitter campaign. (Twitter / @KaramahDC)
Donald Trump probably expected business as usual last week when he
took aim at Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of a Muslim-American
Army captain killed in Iraq. After all, his usual pattern of denigrating
minorities, Muslims and immigrants has been a foundational strategy in
his bid for the presidency. But thanks to a coordinated Twitter campaign
to address his gendered critique of Ghazala Khan — in which he suggested
the grieving mother either “had nothing to say” or was muzzled by her
religion during a DNC appearance last week — Trump’s bigotry has
backfired, at least for the moment.
took aim at Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of a Muslim-American
Army captain killed in Iraq. After all, his usual pattern of denigrating
minorities, Muslims and immigrants has been a foundational strategy in
his bid for the presidency. But thanks to a coordinated Twitter campaign
to address his gendered critique of Ghazala Khan — in which he suggested
the grieving mother either “had nothing to say” or was muzzled by her
religion during a DNC appearance last week — Trump’s bigotry has
backfired, at least for the moment.
Following Ghazala’s eloquent defense
of her faith and her silence — by calling Islam a religion that teaches
equality and citing the difficulty of speaking about her dead son —
Muslim women and their allies flooded Twitter with their diverse and
defiant voices, sending the hashtag #CanYouHearUsNow viral as they
proudly broadcast their strength as females and Muslims.
of her faith and her silence — by calling Islam a religion that teaches
equality and citing the difficulty of speaking about her dead son —
Muslim women and their allies flooded Twitter with their diverse and
defiant voices, sending the hashtag #CanYouHearUsNow viral as they
proudly broadcast their strength as females and Muslims.
