Muslim woman: I'm one of Trump's "silent voters"

by Alexandra King


Muslim, immigrant woman: 'I voted for Trump'

Story highlights

Asra Nomani revealed she had voted for Trump in a Washington Post column

She says that Trump is the only candidate who will tackle Islamic extremism

(CNN)Asra Nomani is an immigrant, a Muslim and a life-long liberal. She is also, as she told CNN's Carol Costello Friday, a "silent secret Donald Trump voter."

Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement, first made her self-described "confession" in a Washington Post column on Thursday. Since it published, she told Costello, she has received a torrent of abuse on social media. It's a symptom, Nomani insisted, of an increasingly hostile "liberal honor brigade."

"You know, I felt like this entire election year, we have just silenced so many people," Nomani said.

"Even now the idea of speaking out as somebody who voted for Trump is earning me all sorts of lovely labels like 'idiot' and 'f***er' and all these other ideas that I think violate liberal values of free speech and self-determination. So I spoke out because I also believe we have to stand up for the dignity of all people and Trump voters are human beings, too," she insisted.

At the forefront of her reasons for voting Trump, Nomani said, was her fear of what she dubbed the "very real and serious threat by extremist Muslims."

"This is a reality that we haven't confronted directly for the sake of political correctness," Nomani explained.

"If people would hear out the concerns and fears that others have about the issues to refugees and extremists, I think we could find a path that's in the middle. But unfortunately, what happens is that this liberal honor brigade shuts down all conversation, calls you bigot or racist or Islamophobe if you dare to speak your own concerns," she added.

Asked by Costello what she thought about the fact that Trump's talk of a Muslim ban had made many Muslim-Americans afraid, Nomani replied that the country needed a "middle path" in order for true dialogue to take place.
"He's indelicate. We got that. But he expresses a truth that people speak," Nomani said.

"I believe that the left must move to the middle, the right must move to the middle. Then we are going to come up with actually healthy solutions that protect national security as well as human rights" she added.

tonaydo:
that's her own cup of tea

tuale4u:


She voted who she believe is better 4 America.
I think Clinton suppprters are deluded. They feel anyone who think differently is insane. I am begining to feel Clinton voters are actually the stupid and brainwashed ones.

Why support Hillary Clinton who was collecting "Chukuli" from CNN before her debate. Clinton actually brought shame to America. Someone who is ready to cheat by getting questions that was suppose to be secret b4 a debate has no morals and honour.

Flexherbal:
Victory has friends and families. But failure is an orphan.

Bari22:
I'm a muslim, I hate trump.

Bari22:
I'm a muslim, I hate trump.

Bari22:
I'm a muslim, I hate trump.

Bari22:
I'm a muslim, I hate trump.

sanandreas:


Your hate won't stop him from eradicating Islamist terrorists. Keep hating. The Muslim world was cold when they heard the news of trump's victory. why is terrosim associated with Islam? From Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, Isis. The world can't continue to leave in fear. Trump would smoke terrorists out and not the good Muslims. Copy that

Sufisunni:
Not the whole muslim world but the terroristic-muslim world was cold! The Saudi, Qatar and USA political establishment r d real terrorists, no wonder the trio were cold when Trump won.

Bari22:
I'm a muslim, I hate trump.

Sufisunni:
Why the hate? r u a radical muslim?? who kills and maims without any objectivity. I am a muslim too! I started supporting Trump when Hilary emails saga leaked her knowledge of USA political establishment knows Saudi n Qatar were funding ISIS and USA was giving th ISIS technical training in Jordan and using diff names to deceive the gullible ones by calling same terrorists freedom fighters or liberal fighters, what a double standard by USA. Trump came out publicly to condemn the killing of Gadafi and Saddam, because this has led to ISIS and that was why he called Obama the founder of ISIS. Here is what TRUMP said " "If I become President, the era of nation-
building will be ended. Our new approach, which
must be shared by both parties in America, by
our allies overseas, and by our friends in the
Middle East, must be to halt the spread of
Radical Islam," Trump announced in a foreign
policy speech in August." Saudi, Qatar and USA(political establishment) r using ISIS to fight proxy war with Iran thereby giving Islam a bad name.

Sufisunni:
Why the hate? r u a radical muslim?? who kills and maims without any objectivity. I am a muslim too! I started supporting Trump when Hilary emails saga leaked her knowledge of USA political establishment knows Saudi n Qatar were funding ISIS and USA was giving th ISIS technical training in Jordan and using diff names to deceive the gullible ones by calling same terrorists freedom fighters or liberal fighters, what a double standard by USA. Trump came out publicly to condemn the killing of Gadafi and Saddam, because this has led to ISIS and that was why he called Obama the founder of ISIS. Here is what TRUMP said " "If I become President, the era of nation-
building will be ended. Our new approach, which
must be shared by both parties in America, by
our allies overseas, and by our friends in the
Middle East, must be to halt the spread of
Radical Islam," Trump announced in a foreign
policy speech in August." Saudi, Qatar and USA(political establishment) r using ISIS to fight proxy war with Iran thereby giving Islam a bad name.

Sufisunni:
Why the hate? r u a radical muslim?? who kills and maims without any objectivity. I am a muslim too! [b]I started supporting Trump when Hilary emails saga leaked her knowledge of USA political establishment knows Saudi n Qatar were funding ISIS and USA was giving th ISIS technical training in Jordan and using diff names to deceive the gullible ones by calling same terrorists freedom fighters or liberal fighters, what a double standard by USA. [/b]Trump came out publicly to condemn the killing of Gadafi and Saddam, because this has led to ISIS and that was why he called Obama the founder of ISIS. Here is what TRUMP said " "If I become President, the era of nation-
building will be ended. Our new approach, which
must be shared by both parties in America, by
our allies overseas, and by our friends in the
Middle East, must be to halt the spread of
Radical Islam," Trump announced in a foreign
policy speech in August." Saudi, Qatar and USA(political establishment) r using ISIS to fight proxy war with Iran thereby giving Islam a bad name.