Manal omar biography of donald

Those who know my work know I always encourage people to participate in government — even when you passionately disagree with its actions. This can be a particularly tough challenge for people from minority communities who feel harmed by state policy: We face a two-front battle, confronting both the policies that harm us and those in our own community who criticize us for aligning with the government.

I often struggled with this during my time at the institute, and there were moments during the Obama administration when I felt morally compromised.

But I stuck around, because my voice was never silenced. In fact, I confronted President Barack Obama face to face over Middle East policy at the White House in 2014. He was willing to talk about our differences.

All that changed this year.

Whereas an actual argument with the president never put my job in question in 2014, in 2017 the act of identifying hate speech for what it was, spoken by a man who at the time was one of many vying f