Covering the Election While Muslim: NPR's Asma Khalid, in Her Own Words
"Donald Trump did not create the fear of Muslims; he merely tapped into it."
NPR campaign reporter Asma Khalid‘s account of her time on the campaign trail begins with a language warning. The warning isn’t for language Khalid uses, but for the quotes she includes in her piece, including in her opening:
Sometime in early 2016 between a Trump rally in New Hampshire, where a burly man shouted something at me about being Muslim, and a series of particularly vitriolic tweets that included some combination of “raghead,” “terrorist,” “bitch” and “jihadi,” I went into my editor’s office and wept.
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