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UNITED WE LIVE...UNITED WE DIE
We live at a time of uncertainly, a time where people are divided for the most trivial of reasons, a time where di erences over rule commonalities. A time where the eyes see
only the di erences, while the unifying aspects are zoomed out. A time where the hearts look at one another with
doubt and skepticism. Reality stares us in the face but we choose to ignore it and look elsewhere. Today we live in the midst of the current geo-political climate where people are confronted with an identity crisis after a travel ban has been on imposed on immigrants in the US after Trump’s recent executive order. According to ACS data, the U.S. immigrant population stood at more than 42.4 million, or 13.3 percent, of the total U.S. population of 318.9 million in 2014,. Between 2013 and 2014, the foreign-born population increased by
1 million, or 2.5 percent. Immigrants in the United States
and their U.S.-born children now number approximately 81 million people, or 26 percent of the overall U.S. population, a number far from trivial.
JERRMEIN ABU SHAHBA
In the midst of this time of instability, insecurity, and disappointment by the immigrants of the U.S., we are
ever more in need of uniting and unifying together under one umbrella and one aim. This sense of unity is required not only among Muslims as a whole, but also among our brethren among inter-faith believers (Christians and Jews). It is essential not only among the also among people of other divine faiths, it is necessary to exist among all cultures, and backgrounds regardless of their di erences. A unity that serves the basic human principles, of, love, compassion, and justice to one another even if we are personally not a ected. Nowadays, Muslims living in the West stand in awe as they continue to witness the multitudes of common people who came to protest the immigrant travel ban and many or most of them were not Muslim or immigrant! People marched in rallies in big numbers across the nation, held banners, and chanted their disapproval of this ridiculous executive order which was discriminative against innocent Muslims. It was a beautiful signature of unity by human beings who care for
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