Corey Saylor

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There are important lessons in the Muslim American experience that can help opposing voices survive Trump’s second term.

U.S. President Donald Trump at the Oval Office

We are seeing levels of Islamophobia in the US that surpass the ones triggered by Trump’s Muslim ban.

Mourners attend a vigil service at the Prairie Activity & Recreation Center for Wadea Al-Fayoume, 6, a Muslim boy who according to police was stabbed to death in an attack that targeted him and his mother for their religion and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas, in Plainfield, Illinois, U.S. October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska/File Photo

Last year CAIR registered a decline in the number of complaints from Muslim Americans for the first time since 1995.

Yusuf Abdulle, standing, director of the Islamic Association of North America, prays with fellow Muslims at the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in Minneapolis on Thursday, May 12, 2022. This spring Minneapolis became the first large city in the United States to allow the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, to be broadcast publicly by its two dozen mosques. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)