Debates about who is a ‘real New Yorker’ tend to erase New York’s working class, immigrant residents.
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When the whole world is facing unprecedented upheaval, it is astonishing to suggest ‘Islam’ alone is in crisis.
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Joe Biden has to commit to go beyond lifting the Muslim ban to address discriminatory policies Muslim communities face.
They can, but for examples we must look to James Baldwin and Stephen Hawking, not the ‘enlightened’ Richard Dawkins.
