'This is the America I grew up in': Muslim Democrats find a welcoming home at state convention

[TexasTowelie]

Zulikha Hussain wasn’t always a diehard Democrat. In the past, she’s even voted for a few Republicans, but that changed when Donald Trump secured his party’s nomination in 2016.

Her opinion of the party she once respected was forever tainted by the anti-Muslim rhetoric that played out during the campaign.

“The Republicans have forgotten what they stood for, what their values were, what American values are,” she said. “When you start defining me (as a Muslim), that’s when I have to say stop, that’s not who I am.”

On Saturday, she and her husband Mohammad joined fellow Texas Democrats at the state convention in Fort Worth, as the party prepares for the upcoming November elections. It was the Irving couple’s first time at a convention.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018-elections/2018/06/23/america-grew-muslim-democrats-find-welcoming-home-state-convention

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1. Can you imagine

If our country as a whole was more like that convention? WOW!

[Docreed2003]

2. We need more of this diversity, not less...

Our country was always billed as a "great melting pot"...may it always be so!

[LeftInTX]

3. I went to their Thursday night event.

It did not disappoint. While my friends were out in crowded bars, I relaxed in the ballroom and enjoyed their Celebration of Cultures event.