Being Muslim in America (and MIT) in 2016
Last December, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump called for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States. In March, he added that \u201cI think Islam hates us.\u201d MIT alumna and Wise Systems co-founder Layla Shaikley join engineering masters student Abubakar Abid to explore how this type of hateful, discriminatory rhetoric influences public opinion, discuss its impact on the daily lives of Muslim-Americans, and examine strategies for combating it.\n\nLayle Shaikley is an MIT alum, co-founder of Wise Systems and co-founder of TEDxBaghdad. With her viral video sensation \u201cMuslim Hipsters: #mipsterz,\u201d she helped launch a national conversation about how Muslim women are represented.\n\nAbubakar Abid is a engineering masters student at MIT and a member of the Muslim Student Association.\n\nHisham Bedri is an MIT graduate who studied new imaging technologies and their implications on privacy.\n\nModerator: Seth Mnookin, associate director of MIT\u2019s Graduate Program in Science Writing and director of the MIT Communications Forum.