I moved here when I was four, so this was the only home I knew, i'm American through and through in every sense of the word. But I was 19, Muslim, and I had a beard, and suddenly people couldn't see me as American.

Qasim Rashid

Qasim Rashid (born July 21, 1982) is a Pakistani-born American author, human rights activist, politician, and attorney. He previously served as the national spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. He is the author of several books, including The Wrong Kind of Muslim and Talk To Me. He is a Democratic Party activist, and in 2019 he unsuccessfully ran for the Virginia State Senate. He was the Democratic nominee for Virginia's 1st congressional district in the 2020 election.

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