5 Years Later, The Muslim Ban Went Digital

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Friend, I’ll never forget the night five years ago when thousands of New Yorkers gathered in Washington Square Park for an emergency protest against then-President Trump’s unconstitutional Muslim Ban. In helping to organize that first major protest against the Muslim Ban, I saw Trump’s nativist executive order as the most potent threat to democracy, equality, and civil rights.   Today, Trump may be gone, but the anti-Muslim ideology that defined his administration remains, embedded in our surveillance state at the federal, state, and local level. His orders are no longer law, but our Muslim neighbors are still being targeted, still being demonized, and still facing the full force of the American national security state.   Simply because a Democrat is in the White House, we can’t pretend the threat is gone. Here in New York City, the most recent NYPD data to be published showed 95% of intelligence investigations targeted the Muslim community. Even as our elected officials have denounced the discrimination of the past, they fail to take action to prevent this racist surveillance from continuing in the future. We must do more. New York’s anti-Muslim policing was the inspiration for President Trump’s Muslim ban, and now we must see if we can inspire a national movement to dismantle the surveillance state. In solidarity, Albert Fox Cahn Executive Director Share Tweet Forward Copyright © 2022 S.T.O.P., All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: 40 Rector Street 9th Floor New York, NY 10006 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.