Here’s what Muslim Americans told CNN before Trump’s election

Story highlights CNN interviewed more than 40 Muslim Americans in three communities Their consensus: 2016 is worse than the aftermath of 9/11 This story was first published on October 17, 2016. (CNN)Muslim Americans describe the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a seminal moment that painfully altered their place in American society. But when CNN interviewed American Muslims about the presidential election, we heard a startling message: 2016 is worse. CNN traveled last month to three growing Muslim communities — in Minneapolis, Northern Virginia and Staten Island — which represent the diversity and increasing political engagement of Muslims in the United States. The majority of people we spoke to said it is harder to be a Muslim American today than it was even after 9/11. “I have never thought I would hear my young daughter say, ‘Dad, people were asking me about my scarf in the school,’ ” said Hamse Warfa, a Somali refugee who immigrated to the US as a teenager and now lives in the Minneapolis suburbs. “After 9/11, there was no ring-leader, so to speak, who was championing, mainstreaming, hate.” That “ring-leader” Warfa was referring to is Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president. Read More Trump… Read full this story

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