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Doing Good as Muslim American and Being Shut Down

Doing Good as Muslim American and Being Shut Down

Tiny Spark · Tiny Spark

March 24, 201616m 53s

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Show Notes

In the wake of this week’s terrorist bombings in Brussels and heated anti-Muslim rhetoric in the U.S. presidential race, we read with interest Beenish Ahmed’s NPR essay, Learning — And Unlearning — To Be An 'Ambassador' For Islam. We invited Ahmed to speak more about her experience as a Muslim in America, trying to appear nonthreatening to an increasingly anxious American public.