US MUSLIMS

Fight against Trump administration is ‘America’s fight’, say American Muslims

CHICAGO

IN a sprawling banquet hall, Ahmed Rehab stood at a lectern facing a glittering group of diners and launched into a searing speech excoriating the Donald Trump administration.

“This fight is not just our fight, it is America’s fight,” Rehab told the packed room of 1,200 attendees, mostly American Muslims, at a fundraiser for the Chicago chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, which Rehab heads.

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