What Muslims Want to See in a Biden Presidency

For the last 20 years, American Muslims have been on a cruel roller coaster ride with presidential candidates and the two major political parties in general. In the 2000 presidential election, many Muslims voted for George W. Bush and his espoused compassionate conservatism, as well as his pledge to end the use of secret evidence, much of it aimed at the Muslim community, in the courts.

But after 9/11, the Bush presidency turned out to be U.S. Muslims' worst nightmare. The administration launched two disastrous wars in Muslim-majority Afghanistan and Iraq, established torture camps such as Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, criminalized legitimate American Muslim institutions and charities, sentenced American Muslim leaders to draconian prison sentences on the basis of shoddy evidence and passed the Patriot Act, further curtailing our civil liberties.