CNN Touts Muslim Woman 'Fearful' After Trump Win; Omits Her Activism

Matthew Balan | November 28, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

The 28 November 2016 edition of CNN's New Day played up how a young Muslim woman, Marwa Abdelghani, stopped wearing the traditional Islamic head scarf after an alleged spitting incident before Election Day: "It was getting closer and closer to November 8. That's when I decided that I just was going to take it off for a while." Kyung Lah gave Abdelghani a platform to denounce President-Elect Donald Trump for his "racist, Islamophobic, sexist statements," but failed to mention that she acts as a "community outreach fellow" for an activist organization for American Muslims.

Alisyn Camerota reacted to Lah's "interesting story" by expressing her hope that "there will be a movement where people wear the head scarf in solidarity...even if you're not Muslim, maybe. It's the way people shave their heads...sometimes, in solidarity with somebody who's going through something. Maybe, you'll see a wave of the opposite happening."

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