(WASHINGTON, DC – 3/1/17) The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations today thanked Rep. Hank Johnson for inviting Asma Elhuni, CAIR-GA’s outreach director, to attend President Trump’s first address to Congress. Elhuni also delivered remarks to congressional Democrats during her visit to Capitol Hill.
“I am here to remind Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and every other anti-Muslim, anti-Hispanic, anti-immigrant, anti-refugee extremist that we, too, are America,” Elhuni said. “Maybe not the part of America President Trump ever thinks of. Maybe not the part of America he wants to make great again. But we, too, are America.”
By inviting American Musims and others who targeted by President Trump’s policies over the past month, members of Congress hoped to deliver a visual rebuke to the Trump Administration.
“We thank Rep. Johnson for giving Georgia Muslims a voice on Capitol Hill, as well as for his other efforts to defend our community from discrimination and bigotry,” said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, executive director of CAIR-GA.