Last month Muslim activist Linda Sarsour gave a speech in Sacramento in which she urged Muslims to become political because “Muhammad was a human rights activist,” and Trump a fascist.

The self-described “Islamophobe’s worst nightmare” went on to claim that Islam has always been an “anti-racist, feminist, and empowering religion,” and that our modern understanding of human rights are unnecessary because Islam already teaches these things.

Sarsour explained: “I go to a lot of mosques or community centers and this is what they say to me. They say: ‘Sister Linda, we know that you’re very political, but in my mosque, we try not to be too political. We don’t like politics here’…

“Here’s my answer to those people: If you woke up this morning, and you are breathing and you are Muslim, then you’re political.
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Sarsour went on to say that being publicly educated (for free) cheated her out of her Islamic education.

“You know what I feel like I got cheated out of? Nobody ever told me that my beloved Prophet Muhammad was an activist. He was a human rights activist,” she said.

“We don’t need a workers’ rights movement or an environmental justice movement. We don’t need a Black Lives Matter movement, because our religion has taught us that black lives mattered way before there was a hashtag, or a movement, or people protesting outside on these streets.
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“Our religion [Islam] has always been an anti-racist, feminist, and empowering religion. I don’t need people in the West, or people in Europe, or people in the United States of America to teach me what feminism is.”

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