Prospect of Trump presidency sends shudders through Muslim community
Too distressed to focus in class Wednesday, Asaad Traina, a 25-year-old public health student at Harvard University, joined his friend Mahmoud Elrifai for lunch at the cafe in Boston’s largest mosque.
“He’s not racist in coded language, like we’re used to,” Traina said, referring to Donald J. Trump, the president-elect. “He’s overtly super-racist and sexist and anti-Muslim. The scary thing is, all the people who share his views now legitimately feel like they can be open about that.”
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